The report on Non-Communicable Diseases by Apollo Hospitals also found that one in three people screened had pre-diabetes, one person in four had diabetes, one in 10 had uncontrolled diabetes.
The
hospital found that colon cancer cases were increasing among younger people.
The
median age for cancer diagnosis in India is lower when compared to the U.S.,
U.K., and China, said a report released by Apollo Hospitals. According to the
hospital’s data, the average age of diagnosis of breast cancer in India is 52
against 63 in the U.S. and UK, while for lung cancer it is 59 years as opposed
to around 70 in the West.
The
fourth edition of Apollo Hospitals’s “Health of the Nation” report, which looks
at trends in Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) based on the hospital’s data, has
highlighted the huge burden of cancers among the country’s younger population
and risk posed by low cancer screening rates.
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