Itanagar: Arunachal Pradesh‘s Papum Pare district and Aizawl in Mizoram recorded the highest incidence of new cancer cases in the country among females and males respectively, as per a government report.
The report, released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (IMCR) and National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research (NCDIR), stated that Papumpare district has 219.8 per one lakh cases among females.
Mizoram’s capital Aizawl has 269.4 per one lakh cases among males, it said.
Northeast India is the cancer capital of the country with the highest age-adjusted cancer incidence rates of newly diagnosed cases in the country, said Dr Kaling Jerang, the principal investigator of Population Based Cancer Registry (PBCR) at Bakin Pertin General Hospital (BPGH) in Pasighat.
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The PBCR project under the ICMR-NCDIR, Bengaluru, has been studying the trends under the National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP), he said on Tuesday.
He hoped that the data revealed by the project will be used by the government in policy-making decisions regarding prevention , treatment and management of the disease.
