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Kerala Economic Review 2023: Cancer related findings

Content Editor: Dr Tanya Tanu

February 17, 2024 at 3:30:00 PM

Cancer, Kerala State Planning Board, Population Based Screening

Content Editor: Dr Tanya Tanu

  • Volume I covers the policies, programs, and achievements of Government departments. Volume II provides the corresponding datasets. 

  • Findings of Economic Review 2023:

  1. The number of new cases at the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), Thiruvananthapuram, was 15,324 in 2022-23 with an increase of 36 percent in three years.

  2. The review cases reported increased from 1,50,330 in 2020-21 to 2,42,129 in 2022-23, an increase of 61 percent in the three years.

  3. Malabar Cancer Centre (MCC), Kannur has reported 7,795 new cases in 2022-23, and Cochin Cancer Research Centre had 1,606 new cases in that year.

  4. Cancer mortality is extremely high among males in the state compared to the national average.

  • Population-based cancer registry at RCC and MCC reflected that the most prevalent cancers were:

  1. Lung cancer among men

  2. Breast cancer among women.

  • Strategies adopted:

  1. Launching preventive oncology clinics.

  2. Population-based screening of non-communicable diseases.

  3. Advocating lifestyle changes: decreasing alcohol and tobacco consumption, unhealthy eating patterns, sedentary lifestyle, and high levels of stress.

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