{"id":47269,"date":"2014-02-12T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T07:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=47269"},"modified":"2014-02-12T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T07:22:29","slug":"rise-in-cancer-cases-deaths-in-india-47269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/rise-in-cancer-cases-deaths-in-india-47269\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise in cancer cases, deaths in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47270\" style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-47270 \" alt=\"Cancer cases on rise in India.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Cancer-Cases-India-Nationalturk-12-480x360.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Cancer-Cases-India-Nationalturk-12-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Cancer-Cases-India-Nationalturk-12-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Cancer-Cases-India-Nationalturk-12.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cancer cases on rise in India.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>In a matter of concern, number of cancer cases and deaths due to the disease are witnessing steep increase in India.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, Feb 12\/Nationalturk &#8211; \u00a0The number of cancer cases and deaths due to the disease are on rise in India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs per data provided by National Cancer Registry Programme of Indian\u00a0 Council\u00a0 of Medical Research (ICMR), the number of cancer cases and deaths are increasing in our country,\u201d Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad informed Rajya Sabha, upper house of Indian parliament.<\/p>\n<p>According to statistics, 1028502\u00a0 cancer cases were reported in 2011. \u201cThe figure increased 1057203 in 2012 and 1086783 in 2013\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It further disclosed that there were 452541 estimated cancer deaths in India in 2011. \u201cThe figure rose to 465169 in 2011 and at least 478185 cancer deaths were reported in India in 2013\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>Many factors may be involved: Indian Health minister<\/h2>\n<p>Indian Health minister said increase in number of cancer cases in India may be attributed to ageing population, unhealthy lifestyles, use of tobacco and tobacco products, unhealthy diet, better diagnostic facilities etc.<\/p>\n<p>He said Indian government supplements the efforts of the State governments in country for improving healthcare including prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt present, the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and Stroke (NPCDCS) being implemented for interventions up to the district level includes Cancer prevention, screening, early detection and referral to an appropriate level Institution for treatment,\u201d he said adding Indian government recently approved a scheme for enhancing the Tertiary Care Cancer facilities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Azad said treatment of cancer in government institutions is either free or subsidized.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Asia News<\/b><strong>\/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a matter of concern, number of cancer cases and deaths due to the disease are witnessing steep increase in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,107,118,14],"tags":[64768,14150,64766,64774,64773,48451,2546,48452,45553,64767,64772,47276,64771,64769,47275,64770],"class_list":["post-47269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-health","category-hot","category-world","tag-ageing-population","tag-cancer","tag-cancer-deaths","tag-cardiovascular-diseases","tag-diabetes","tag-ghulam-nabi-azad","tag-india","tag-indian-health-minister","tag-indian-parliament","tag-national-cancer-registry-programme","tag-prevention-and-control-of-cancer","tag-rajya-sabha","tag-unhealthy-diet","tag-unhealthy-lifestyles","tag-upper-house","tag-use-of-tobacco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}