About Cancer Burden in India

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In India, slightly more than one million new cases of cancer are diagnosed every year in a population of 1.2 billion, and the number of new cancer cases is projected to nearly double within the next 20 years. In 2012 alone, an estimated 600,000 to 700,000 deaths in India were caused by cancer (NCBI Data).