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1. Incidence and Trends in Cancer Indian Scenario
Dr. T. Sujit
Consultant Radiation Oncologist
- High Precision Radiation Therapy
Comprehensive Cancer Care Network ( C C C N )
www.cccn.org.in
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16. Age of incidence : young adults
Life-style related cancers :
tobacco and alcohol
diet
physical inactivity
altered bio-rhythms
18. Vastly improved treatment methods and protocols –
• Evidence based medicine
• Teamwork
• Chemotherapy
• Surgery
• Radiation Therapy
• Palliative care.
• Allied Specialities
19. • Socio-political measures : anti-smoking
laws, ban on tobacco products
• NGOs and support groups
• Information dissemination and creation of
awareness.
20. India is home to 10% of the world’s smokers
2nd largest consumer of tobacco
India has 12 crore tobacco users, according to the Global Adult
Tobacco Survey (GATS) 2009-2010, which means every ninth
Indian consumes tobacco.
Cigarette and bidi smoking causes about 5% of all deaths in
women and 20% of all deaths in men aged 30–69
years, totalling 1 million deaths per year in India in 2010.
21. WHO estimates passive
smoking causes 600,000
deaths every year.
One-third of those killed
are children who are
often exposed to smoke
at home
22. The total economic cost of tobacco use in India
in 2004 was calculated to be 16 per cent more
than the total excise tax revenues from all
tobacco products during the year.
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24. Even the conservative estimates presented here are huge in comparison with
the taxes collected from tobacco or the expenditure on tobacco control
incurred by Government of India.
The mortality cost has been estimated to account for 84% of total tobaccorelated costs in India. Studies from China, Korea, USA, and Germany
estimate the cost of premature death to be 58%, 91%, 46% and 64% of the
total cost of smoking respectively.
If the value of tobacco-attributable deaths adds 84% to the total costs, our
estimate of the total economic costs of tobacco use in India for 2004 would
be $10.6 billion ( = 55,120 crores )
. . . AND THIS WAS IN 2009 !
( THE UNION BUDGET OUTLAY FOR HEALTHCARE IN 2009-10 : 22,300 CRORES )
25. Ban on Gutkha
Pongalipaka, a tiny village near
Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh
with a population of 1,632 people has been
declared TOBACCO FREE since May 2012.
