Indian Council of medical research (ICMR) recently released its report titled “Clinicopathological Profile of Cancers in India: A Report of Hospital Based Cancer Registries, 2021”. The report provides data on cancer cases in India. It was prepared by ICMR- National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research, Bengaluru.

Key findings of the report

• As per report, total of 6.10 lakh cancers have been reported in India in between 2012 to 2019.
• Out of these, 52.4 percent cases were reported among males while 47.6 percent cases were reported among females.
• These cases were reported under the National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP).
• Childhood cancers (among 0-14 years old children) amount to 7.9 per cent of all cancer cases.
• Cancers due to tobacco use amounted to 48.7 per cent of cancers among males while 16.5 per cent among females.
• Under the NCRP, 13,32,207 cancer cases were registered from 96 hospitals during 2012-19. Out of these, 6,10,084 cases were included for analysis.
• One-third of patients, diagnosed with cancers of the tongue, thyroid, larynx, corpus uteri, kidney, bladder etc, had localized disease at the time of presentation.