KEEP YOURSELF AWAY FROM ALL SORT OF TOBACCO

ONE SHOULD KEEP HIMSELF AWAY FROM ALL SORT OF TOBACCO

My journey with cancer began in March 2015, when I noticed a white spot in my mouth, I kept feeling it for several days so my family told me to go and get it checked out.

My family doctor sent me to an ENT specialist at the local hospital who ordered a biopsy. The tests showed that, that spot was cancerous.

I was devastated. It felt as though my world had stopped and that everything else was just going on around me.

At that point, I wanted an expert opinion at a specialized cancer center, so I went to Dr Naresh Jakhotia, Additional Consultant, Radiation Oncologist at Bhagwan Mahaveer Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Jaipur

There they found that the primary cancer was in my left mouth. My initial treatment was a Surgery & then 30 fraction of radiation therapy. Side effects of the radiotherapy were far tolerable. It caused ulcers in my mouth and slight difficulty in swallowing but all the symptoms were relieved after 4 weeks of radiation therapy.

After one year of treatment. Medical reports showed that there was no evidence of disease. I was satisfied & with new hope for my future life.

 Every scan since, including my last one in Aug 2017, had shown the same thing.

Hopefully, things stay this way and I can live my life.

I used to chew tobacco from several years but when I diagnosed with cancer I throw off it from my Life. Through  this platform I appeal to all tobacco users that  “One should keep himself away from all sort of Tobacco” to lead a Healthy Life as Tobacco leads to not only Cancer but it also leaves behind a long tail of Pain & Agony.

Har Lal, 

39 Year old, 

Alwar Resident