The World Cancer Day will be observed in Bangladesh today with no government programmes, while about 1.5 lakh people die of cancer every year in the country.
The government has chalked up no programmes to mark the day demonstrating its negligence in combating the deadly disease, experts said.
According to a study carried out by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, in 2010, cancer causes 21 per cent of maternal casualty in the country.