World Cancer Day | Northeast India has high burden of cancer: ICMR-NCDIR
World Cancer Day | Northeast India has high burden of cancer: ICMR-NCDIR
The report by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Centre for Disease Informatics & Research (NCDIR) stated that the number of new cancer cases in the Northeast region (NER) is likely to increase to 57,131 by 2025
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Probability of developing cancer over a lifetime is as high as one in every four men and one in every six women in Kamrup Urban of Assam. This was revealed in a report titled, Profile of cancer and related health indicators in the Northeast Region of India . The report is a collaborative study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Centre for Disease Informatics & Research (NCDIR), Bengaluru.
‘Cancer registries are the need of the hour’
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Virtual meet organised by GITAM on World Cancer Day
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Virtual meet organised by GITAM on World Cancer Day
Population-Based Cancer Registries (PBCRs) are key elements of a cancer control programme for data collection, analysis, interpretation and health policy implementation particularly to prepare national and regional cancer plans, Dr. Digumarti Raghunadha Rao, former Director of Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre has said.
He participated in a virtual cancer awareness programme organised by the Biochemistry and Bioinformatics Department of GITAM Deemed to be University on the occasion of World Cancer Day. He observed that PBCRs provide vital inputs for cancer control activities and there was a growing requirement for the local planning and development of PBCRs.