Parliamentary Standing Committee Recommends Making Cancer A Notifiable Disease
The estimated incidence of cancer in India in 2024 at 15.6 lakh cases, revealing a rise from over 13 lakh five years earlier, makes a sound argument for the disease to be made notifiable under law. Cancer kills about 8.2 lakh people a year. The disease is, at present, notifiable under local regulations in 17 states and Union Territories, but the Union government has baulked at issuing a national…
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