INTRODUCTION: Cancer: Cancer is a disorder that results from genetic or epigenetic alterations in the somatic cells and has abnormal cell growth which may be spread to other body parts. They form a subset of neoplasm. The unregulated growth of cells in a group called neoplasm or tumor and they form a lump or mass and may be distributed diffusely 1-3.
It was predicted by Global demographic characteristics that about 420 million new cases of cancer by 2025 annually, which means increasing cancer incidence in years. Cases of cancer about 18 million in 2018 were recorded worldwide; in men, about 9.5 million and women about 8.5 million.
Globally about 9.6 million deaths were estimated in cancer 4,5. The commonest cancers are prostate cancer (1.28 million), female breast cancer (2.09 million), colorectal cancer (1.1 million), stomach cancer (1.03 million) and non-melanoma skin malignancies (1.04 million) 6,7. Cancer-related deaths, from most to least frequent, are due to lung cancer (1.76 million), colorectal cancer (862,000),
