Telangana: 48,775 lung cancer cases in 2021- lowest among southern states

Lung cancer cases plunged up by 5 percent in India in the last two years, according to the government figure, the merciless disease went up by 34K in the previous year.
The country reported the maximum number of cases in the state of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, and Bihar. Moving down south, the cancer caseload was most in the state of Tamil Nadu, followed by Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Kerala.
Government in the parliament (quoting the Indian Council of Medical Research — National Cancer Registry Programme (ICMR-NCRP) said, “the Lung Cancer cases have gone up from 98,278 in 2020 to 1,03,371 in 2022, Registering a bounce of 5.2 percent.” In the year 2022, in Uttar Pradesh ( including both men and women) the overall number of cancer cases reported is 2,10,958. In the same year, Maharashtra reported 1,21,717 cases, along with (1,13,851) in West Bengal and (1, 09274) Bihar.
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Since 2019, the states have witnessed a rise in cancer cases.