A nationwide study was conducted to estimate the incidence of 28 types of cancer in every state of India from 1990 to 2016 and it was found that the number of new cases and deaths due to cancer have doubled in India from 1990 to 2016.The  crude cancer incidence rate were highest in Kerala and Mizoram, followed by Haryana, Delhi, Karnataka, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Assam .The crude cancer DALY rate has also increased by 25·3% (16·8–34·2) from 1990 to 2016.

Fig 1: Incidence rate of cancer in 2016 in different states and union territories of India

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