Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: Despite various advocacy measures, the Indian health ministry has not directed the Indian states to make cancer a notifiable disease. The reason given by the ministry is that cancer is not a communicable disease and does not have community spread. India faces a double burden of disease and there has been a rise in cancer cases. The notification of cancer leading to a legal mandate to report cases, will give impetus to the decades-old National Cancer Registry Program. This may enable robust recordkeeping of cancer cases and subsequent policy focus, as has been seen in many developed nations.
Source: Qeios
DOI: 10.32388/il4jv0.2
Authors: Raja Singh, Arthur L Frank
Institution: Drexel University
Language: English
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407616441