{
  "id": 2407454,
  "title": "Parliamentary Standing Committee Recommends Making Cancer A Notifiable Disease",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/parliamentary-standing-committee-recommends-making-cancer-a",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-21T15:49:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/parliamentary-standing-committee-recommends-making-cancer-a-notifiable-disease"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}