A new study has revealed that the cancer mortality trend in India has decreased by 0.19 percent annually among men but increased by 0.25 percent among women, which translates to an increase of 0.02 percent among the combined sexes.
This revelation comes amidst an analysis of mortality trends of 23 major cancers in the Indian population, which killed 12.85 million Indians between 2000 and 2019.
The study, published in JCO Global Oncology, a journal affiliated with the American Society of Clinical Oncology, was conducted by Ajil Shaji, Dr. Pavithran K, and Dr. Vijaykumar DK from the Amrita Hospital, Kochi, in collaboration with Dr. Catherine Sauvaget from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a division of WHO.
Globally, cancer is the second most lethal noncommunicable disease after cardiovascular disease, accounting for about 9.9 million deaths in 2020. Around 9% of all cancer deaths occurred in the Indian population. The country has a 63.1 per 100,000 age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) for cancer, with men and women accounting for 65.4 percent and 61.0 percent respectively.
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