{
  "id": 70232,
  "title": "India accounts for 70% of South Asia’s childhood leukaemia cases: Study",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/india-accounts-for-70-of-south-asias-childhood-leukaemia-cases-study",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-03T01:45:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ETHealthworld",
    "slug": "ethealthworld",
    "url": "https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/india-accounts-for-70-of-south-asias-childhood-leukaemia-cases-study/132816220"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Leukaemia accounts for 30-40% of childhood cancer cases in Indian cancer registries. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) makes up 70-75% of childhood leukaemia cases in the country, according to ETHealthworld.\n\nIndia accounts for 70% of South Asia's childhood leukaemia cases.\n\nNo further information is available in the provided reports to elaborate on the causes, implications or other regional distribution of childhood leukaemia in South Asia.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "ETHealthworld",
        "title": "Estimated cancer cases in North India rise nearly 10% over 5 years; Haryana sees sharpest spike",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/31/estimated-cancer-cases-in-north-india-rise-nearly-10-over-5-years",
        "published": "2026-07-31T01:53:33.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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."
}