Expressing concern about rapidly increasing breast cancer cases in India, renowned Oncologist Shekar Patil said that over the last decade, breast cancer has overtaken cancer of the cervix.
He was delivering the first Dr. A. Shivashankar Memorial Lecture organised by Dr. P.S. Shankar Pratishthana at Khaja Banda Nawaz Teaching and General Hospital in Kalaburagi on Tuesday.
Dr. Patil said that lung cancer and breast cancer are the most common cancers worldwide, contributing 12.5% and 12.2% of the total number of new cases diagnosed in 2020. Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer contributing 10.7% of new cases, followed by prostrate and stomach cancers, he added.
