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Cancer risk highest in N-E - Big puzzle, say researchers at Toronto University
The Telegraph | G.S. Mudur | Guwahati, March 28
Risk of dying from cancer is highest in the Northeast and the lowest in Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa, according to a new study described as the first to provide direct nationally-representative estimates of cancer deaths across the country.
Their analysis shows that a 30-year-old man in Northeast India had the highest chance (11 per cent) of dying from cancer before the age of 70 years in contrast to the risk of less than 3 per cent for men in Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa.
“This is a big puzzle — tobacco may explain part of this pattern, but we really do not understand why the Northeast has a cancer mortality nearly four times higher than the rates in the neighbouring states of Bihar, Jharkhand, or Orissa,” said Prabhat Jha, director of the Centre for Global Health Research. Cancer epidemiologists say the study is significant because it is the first to provide direct estimates of cancer deaths in rural and urban areas. The three most common causes of cancer deaths in men are oral, stomach and lung cancer. In women, the most common forms are cervical, stomach and breast cancer, Jha said.
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