Cancer of the lungs is the most common form of malignancy in males since the 1990s in Mumbai, Delhi and Bhopal, according to the National Cancer Registry programme of Indian Council of Medical Research.
This was collated from data collected from six different parts of the country, a release from Dr K S Reddy, Director of Regional Cancer Centre in JIPMER said here today.
He said the data related to rural and urban areas in these metropolitan cities. In Chennai cancer of the lungs accounts for the second most common form of malignancy while in Bangalore it is at the third rank.
Reddy, also dean of Jawaharlal Institute of Post graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) said that according to the data a history of active tobacco smoking was found in 87 per cent of males and 85 per cent of females in patients with lung cancer and a history of passive tobacco exposure in three per cent.
JIPMER will hold a one-day Continuing Medical Education programme on different aspects of cancer at RCC on April 27.
Reddy said delegates from different institutions would hold deliberations highlighting challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancers. Doctors from various medical colleges and JIPMER would present papers, he said.
Reddy said RCC in JIPMER treats more than 3400 new cancer patients every year.
