LAHORE: Speal(ers at a seminar have cautioned there is an increase in the ratio of breast cancer in young girls in Pakistan due to inappropriate diet and unhealthy lifestyles.

`The situation is getting more and more critical every year, and only key to survival from this fatal disease is early detection,` said clinical oncologist Dr Kashifa Ehsan while addressing the seminar orgainsed by the Government College University`s Quality Enhancement Cell in collaboration with the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre here on Tuesday.

GCU QEC Director Iram Sohail said October was marked in countries across the world as breast cancer awareness month for early detection and treatment and also as palliative care of the disease. Staff Reporter