A) They should be given a cafeteria choice. Tell me - what is religion? It is a way of life to make one happier and more comfortable, if there is something good in another religion why not adopt it?

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I am not forcing anyone, but we should be given a choice.

Genital hygiene is vitally important. Genital hygiene, circumcision, screening, leave all choices for people to decide what they want to do. And if someone opts for a circumcision, why stamp that person as Muslim? If HPV transmission, HIV transmission and cervical cancer are going to reduce, then why not promote circumcision? The third most fatal cancer in urban India that is reducing rapidly is stomach cancer. Those who get it have a mere 5 per cent five-year survival. 95 per cent of people are dead in the first five years. This cancer is reducing at a breakneck speed in cities - because of proper preservation of food.

In rural India, food is kept overnight without refrigeration and preservation, and that can have fungi, which leads to stomach cancer. This has reduced to less than 6 per 100,000 in cities, and it was earlier 20 per 100,000. So Swachh Bharat is an excellent move.

The second important thing - there are some cancers that are rising; breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lower end of food pipe cancer - all these cancers in additional to intestinal cancer and kidney cancer, six cancers are attributed to obesity, which is entirely in urban India.

In rural India, there is no obesity - people work hard.

Obesity produces 6 different kinds of cancer, and almost all are preventable; almost half the breast cancer cases are because of obesity. Immensely preventable through daily exercise and less food.

I do not think today in urban India and cities, there is an entity called hunger - it does not exist. There is so much of food around, yet every mother feels their child does not eat. How does the child become obese then? No exercise.

See, cancer in India is one third to one sixth of that in the US. In America, it is 300 per 100,000. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has put in more than a million USD in Barshi to understand why breast cancer is static at 8 per 100,000 for the last 30 years.

It is around 120 per 100,000 in USA. In the case of large intestine cancer, which is 60-70 per 100,000 in the US.; it is 4 per 100,000 in India. Our diet is excellent, our roughage is fantastic, and our spices are beautiful - all these need to be continued.

We are also working extensively with Tata Trusts on key projects, like the Virtual Tumor Board that provides a platform for doctors across various geographies to virtually share ideas for treatment protocols for cancer and the expert online opinion service, Navya, among others.

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