The Growing Burden of Cancer in Chhattisgarh State of Central India: A Tertiary Cancer Centre Study

1. Abstract

All around the world, cancer manifesting in any form is one of the leading causes for death. In our country approximately 1 million cancer cases are detected every year and the annual deaths due to cancer is around 0.63 million. While lung and oral cancers are the commonest cancer for men, breast and cervical cancers are the commonest cancers for women in our country. Our study was undertaken to find the incidence of cancer burden in Chhattisgarh state of Central India. A retrospective analysis was done involving collection of data of 15 months from 1st Jan-2019 till 31st March 2020.