Dhaka, Jan. 17 -- Bangladesh witnessed an alarmingly high incidence of cancer with a massive rise in both deaths and cases in 2020.

At least 108,990 cancer deaths were recorded in the year while the total caseload was 156,775, only manifesting a frail condition of the country's health sector during the Covid-19 pandemic.

These are the findings of a latest report by the World Health Organisation's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).

Of the total patients, 88,075 were male and 68,700 female, the report reads.

Talking to The Financial Express, Anowara Begum, a cancer victim and also a housewife, who regularly visits National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital, from the country's Noakhali district, said she was diag...