With rising cancer burden in the world and in India, the awareness among public is very important.The diagnosis of cancer comes with a lot of social stigma and creates a lot of worries which needs to be broken for patient's wellbeing.
We as oncologist have to help the patients ad their family in all social,psychological,coping problems and remove their sufferings as much as possible.
As with the diagnosis of cancer - Its not the patient alone who suffers but the family suffers as well.