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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1010</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>THE INCIDENCE OF COMMON CANCERS IN SOUTH INDIAN REGION - A HOSPITAL BASED CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY - RESEARCH ARTICLE&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Katikireddi</surname><given-names>Raja Sekhar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Setty</surname><given-names>Siva Nageswara Rao Sundara</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>16</day><month>12</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>37</fpage><lpage>43</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Objectives: To study the commonest cancers encountered in both male and female sexes in the regional population of Andhra Pradesh in south Indian region. Methods: The study was conducted on total number of 450 patients, who were admitted in Mehdi Nawaz Jung (MNJ) government central cancer hospital, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh after histologically confirmed various cancers. Results: the study revealed that Breast cancer (57 cases, 12.6%), Lung cancer (47 cases, 10.4%), Cervical cancer (41 cases, 9.1%), Oral cancer (41 cases, 9.1%), (264 cases, 58.8%) constitute remaining cancers. Males constitute 48. 8% (220 cases) out of 450 cases and Females constitute 51.2% (230 cases) out of of (450 cases). Age and sex distribution revealed maximum number of cancer patients were present between 40 to 50 years (23.3%). Males, majority of cases are present in 40-50 years age group (11.1%) and females majority of cases are seen in 30-40 year age group (12.8%). Distribution of study sample revealed 55.7% cancer cases (251 patients) residing in urban areas and 44.2% cases (199 patients) were found in rural areas and following data discussed in results. Conclusion: Cancer is projected to become a leading cause of death worldwide in low and middle income countries. This will have the impact of high cancer incidence and death rates more sharply than developed countries.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Cancer</kwd><kwd> Brest cancer</kwd><kwd> Lung cancer</kwd><kwd> Oral cancer</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
