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India is facing a growing cancer epidemic, with a large increase in the number of women with breast cancer. [24] By the year 2020 nearly 70 percent of the world's cancer cases will come from developing countries , with a fifth of those cases coming from India.
Raghu Ram Pillarisetti OBE is an Indian surgeon, and the Founder and Director of KIMS-Ushalakshmi Center for Breast Diseases [2] [15] at KIMS Hospitals. [16] [17] Pillarisetti is the founder of Ushalakshmi Breast Cancer Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation, [18] [19] and Pink Connexion, [20] a quarterly newsletter about breast healthcare.
Breast cancer incidence by age in women (UK) 2006-08 [21] Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK (around 56,000 women and 375 men are diagnosed with the disease every year). It is the fourth most common cause of cancer death (around 11,400 women and 85 men die each year) and the second most common cause of death in women. [22]
In India, the stigma and lack of awareness about breast cancer has contributed to late-stage diagnoses, and lower survival rates. Breast cancer in India: Stigmas attached and what you need to be ...
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This is a list of countries by cancer frequency, as measured by the number of new cancer cases per 100,000 population among countries, based on the 2018 GLOBOCAN statistics and including all cancer types (some earlier statistics excluded non-melanoma skin cancer).
Since its creation, the programme has had many major accomplishments such as the establishment of the National Cancer Registry Programme in 1982. [3] Even though the registry does not cover the whole population affected by cancer, it gives the most updated information on the burden of cancer in the country and informs policies enacted to fight against cancer such as provisions for additional ...