04-15-2007, 05:10 AM
<b>Tropic of cancer</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Its findings took even cancer specialists by surprise. It turned out that women in Delhi have the highest rate of gall bladder cancer in the world, with 10 out of one lakh suffering from it. Districts in central, south, and northeast India reported the worldâs highest rates of cancer caused by tobacco.
Men in Mizoramâs Aizawl district topped the list of cancer of the lower pharynx (11 out of one lakh) and tongue (seven out of one lakh). They also had the countryâs highest rate of stomach cancer, which was also found frequently in men in Bangalore and Chennai.
In Pondicherry, mouth cancer was prevalent in nine out of one lakh men â the highest rate in the world. The survey also detected high rates of thyroid cancer in women in the coastal districts of Kerala, Karnataka and Goa. In other states such as Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, bacterial infection caused by a stomach bug, Helicobacter pylori, was the leading cause of stomach and gastrointestinal cancers.
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Men in Mizoramâs Aizawl district topped the list of cancer of the lower pharynx (11 out of one lakh) and tongue (seven out of one lakh). They also had the countryâs highest rate of stomach cancer, which was also found frequently in men in Bangalore and Chennai.
In Pondicherry, mouth cancer was prevalent in nine out of one lakh men â the highest rate in the world. The survey also detected high rates of thyroid cancer in women in the coastal districts of Kerala, Karnataka and Goa. In other states such as Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, bacterial infection caused by a stomach bug, Helicobacter pylori, was the leading cause of stomach and gastrointestinal cancers.
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