1. Patterns of cancer occurrence in different regions of West Bengal--a hospital based study.
- Author
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Maiti PK, Jana U, Ray A, Karmakar R, Mitra TN, and Ganguly S
- Subjects
- Breast Neoplasms epidemiology, Breast Neoplasms etiology, Breast Neoplasms radiotherapy, Cross-Sectional Studies, Cultural Characteristics, Female, Gastrointestinal Neoplasms epidemiology, Gastrointestinal Neoplasms etiology, Gastrointestinal Neoplasms radiotherapy, Humans, Incidence, India, Lung Neoplasms epidemiology, Lung Neoplasms etiology, Lung Neoplasms radiotherapy, Lymphoproliferative Disorders epidemiology, Lymphoproliferative Disorders etiology, Lymphoproliferative Disorders radiotherapy, Male, Neoplasms etiology, Neoplasms radiotherapy, Otorhinolaryngologic Neoplasms epidemiology, Otorhinolaryngologic Neoplasms etiology, Otorhinolaryngologic Neoplasms radiotherapy, Rural Population statistics & numerical data, Sex Factors, Socioeconomic Factors, Tobacco Use Disorder complications, Tobacco Use Disorder epidemiology, Topography, Medical, Urban Population statistics & numerical data, Urinary Bladder Neoplasms epidemiology, Urinary Bladder Neoplasms etiology, Urinary Bladder Neoplasms radiotherapy, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms epidemiology, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms etiology, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms radiotherapy, Developing Countries, Hospitals, University statistics & numerical data, Neoplasms epidemiology
- Abstract
The incidence of cancer has been rising steadily in the third world countries including India. The patterns of cancer incidence reflect the racial, cultural and pharmacogenomic diversity within populations and nowhere is this diversity more striking than in the Indian subcontinent. This article shows the diversity in patterns of incidence of major cancers across three medical college hospitals in the state of West Bengal in India. All the data were collected from the period between 2001 and 2005. The results show a striking variation of incidence of major cancers in the urban, semi-urban and rural parts of the same state. Indeed the differences of the patterns are explainable by the cultural and socioeconomic differences within the populations from which the study samples are drawn. This constitutes the largest single hospital based data collected from this part of the world till date and will help in re-evaluation of cancer control programmes promulgated by the health authorities of the region.
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- 2012