The country's lead internal security maintenance force CRPF lost 56 personnel to cancer last year while another 179 are battling the disease at present, a senior official of the paramilitary force said.
Concerned by these numbers, the world's largest Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) with about 3.25 lakh personnel in its ranks has advised "all family members of CRPF personnel to undertake annual medical examination in all seriousness as early detection is the only way to eliminate this menace."