Cancer Statistics

1. “Numbers don’t Lie”
Cervical Cancer Statistics in India
Dr. Smita Asthana
Scientist E
ICMR-NICPR

2. Gynecological Cancers
• Cervical cancer is the most common
Gynecological Cancers in women, and the
seventh among both sex.(followed by uterus,
ovary,vulva and vagina)
• More than 85% of the global burden of cervical
cancer occurs in developing countries, where it
accounts for 6.5% of all female cancers.
• High-risk regions for cervical cancer are Eastern,
Southern and Middle Africa (ASR greater then 30
per 100,000).

3. Estimated number of new cases in
2020:
World wide India

4. Cancer Cervix Uteri and its Relative Proportion to All Sites of Cancer (%), Crude (CR),
Age Adjusted (AAR) and Truncated (TR) Incidence Rates per 100,000 population and its Rank in
28 PBCRs under NCRP.

5. Annual Percent Change (APC) in Age Adjusted Incidence Rates (AAR) over the
Time Period –of cervical cancer
• There was a significant
decrease in the
incidence rate of
cervical cancer in 10
PBCRs except in
Dibrugarh district and
Pune where there was a
decline but not
significant.
• https://www.ncdirindia.org/All_Re
ports/Report_2020/resources/NCR
P_2020_2012_16.pdf