There has been an increase in the estimated incidents of breast and cervical cancers in women and lung cancer in men, from 2014 to 2016, the government said.
 

Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Anupriya Patel, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha said, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), there were 1,42,283 incidents of breast cancer in 2016. According to a data shared by the minister in the reply, there was a "6 per cent" increase in successive years over the three-year period for breast cancer. The number of breast cancer cases in 2015 and 2014 were 1,34,214 and 1,26,612, as per the data. In 2016, the number of incidents of cervical cancer was 99,099. The number of its cases in 2015 and 2014 were 97,909 and 96,742 as per the data, she said in the reply.

According to the data, among all states, Uttar Pradesh recorded the maximum incidents of breast cancers across three years -- 21,376 (2016); 20,095 (2015) and 18,889 (2014). Uttar Pradesh also recorded the maximum incidents of cervical cancers across three years -- 17,156 (2016); 16,894 (2015) and 16,636 (2014), as per the data. For estimated incidents of lung cancers in men, the total number of cases across three years were -- 82,550 (2016); 78,252 (2015) and 74,187 (2014). Uttar Pradesh again recorded the highest number in all three years -- 14,252 (2016); 13,453 (2015) and 12,699 (2014), the data said.