Oral cancer kills one every eight hours here

S.M. Jiffrey Abdeen, Kandy south group correspondent

KANDY: Oral cancer claims a life every eight hours in Sri Lanka, a University Convocation was told.

Professor Seiman Warnakulasuriya addressing the General Convocation 2006 of the Peradeniya University, identified arecanut and betel as containing agents which causes mouth cancer.

He said Sri Lanka has one of the largest incidence of oral cancer which could kill an individual.