title: India can do more for breast and cervical cancer control.
abstract: In India breast and cervical cancers are the commonest cancers and have high annual age-adjusted rates in all the registries. In order to have significant improvement in cancer control in India there needs to be a disproportionate focus on women's breast and cervical cancer. In most women cancer has spread at the time of presentation. Simple, inexpensive and cost-effective screening methods are available for both the cancers and compliance to investigation and treatment has been reported to be more than 70%, and more than 80%, respectively for those diagnosed. Screening on a large scale though cost-effective will be challenging economically as well as programmatically. However, there is a need to strategize and select appropriate high-risk groups, have standardized guidelines for screening and treatment, and concentrate on what is do-able.
authors.affiliation: Public Health Foundation of India, India. alkaaggarwalsingh@gmail.com
authors.forename: Alka Aggarwal
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*