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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Cancer killed 5.3 lakh in India in 2011-Kounteya Sinha

Cancer killed 5.3 lakh in India in 2011-Kounteya Sinha

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published Published on Mar 28, 2012   modified Modified on Mar 28, 2012

Tata Memorial Hospital, Lancet, Centre for Global Health Research and University of Toronto jointly releases study findings on cancer mortality in India in 2010. 

The findings are: 

There were 5.56 lakh cancer deaths in India in 2010. 

71% (3.95 lakhs) of these deaths occurred in people aged 30-69 years (2 lakh men and 1.95 lakh women). 

Cancer deaths accounted for 6% of deaths across all ages, but among the 30-69 years age group, this rose to 8% of the 2.5 million total male deaths and 12% of the 1.6 million total female deaths.

At 30-69 years, the three most common fatal cancers in men were: oral (including lip and pharynx, 45,800 (23%), stomach 25,200 (13%) and lung (including trachea and larynx) 22,900 (11%). 

For women, the leading causes of cancer death were cervical 33,400 (17%), stomach 27,500 (14%), and breast 19,900 (10%) cancers in women. 

Tobacco-related cancers represented 42% (84000) of male and 18.3% (35,700) of female cancer deaths at ages 30-69 years 

There were twice as many deaths from oral cancers as lung cancers, in part due to common use of chewing tobacco in men and women. 

The number of oral cancers was more than twice the number of lung cancers in individuals aged 30-69 years, indicating that the range of fatal cancers caused by tobacco in India differs substantially from that in high-income countries 

A 30-year old man in northeastern India had the highest chance (11·2%) of dying from cancer before 70 years of age. 

By contrast, the risk was less than 3% for men in the adjacent states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and Odissa in eastern India. 

For women, the highest risk (6%) of dying from cancer before 70 years of age was in the northeastern states. 

Mortality rates were two times higher in the least educated than in the most educated adults: men, illiterate 107 vs most educated 46; and women, illiterate 107 vs most educated 43. 

Cervical cancer was around 40% less common in Muslim than in Hindu women, probably due to high circumcision rates among Muslim men having a protective effect against human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, a causative agent in cervical cancer. 

Age-standardised cancer mortality rates per 100 000 were similar in rural areas (men 96, women 97) and urban areas (men 102, and women 91, but varied greatly between the states. 

Rates of cancer deaths in India are about 40% lower in adult men and 30% lower in women than in men and women in the USA or UK 

However, cancer death rates are expected to rise, particularly with increases in age-specific rates of tobacco smoking. 

The Times of India, 28 March, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Cancer-killed-5-3-lakh-in-India-in-2011/articleshow/12438161.cms


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