Cancer control in India:Current status, and Control in India limiting factors.

M.Q. Baig; Shilpa Mall; Kanchan Srivastava

Volume : VIII, Issue : I, January - 2019

Cancer control in India:Current status, and Control in India limiting factors.

M. Q. Baig, Shilpa Mall, Kanchan Srivastava

Abstract :

Cancer control aims to reduce the burden of cancer in given setting by resource appropriate investments and interventions. Burden of cancer refers to the number of incident cases, cancer deaths, suffering due cancer, cancer health care expenditure to the individual and governments, lost productivity, socioeconomic implications to the family and society at large, psychosocial burden in terms of stigma and discrimination and poor quality of life. It is interesting to examine how a large country like India with a population of 1.35 billion people and highly varying socioeconomic and health service developments between regions and states tackles cancer control, what has been the impact of already implemented interventions, what challenges lie ahead and what pragmatic solutions are in sight