Srinagar, Nov. 3 -- Through the columns of your esteemed daily, I wish to draw the urgent attention of the health administration, policymakers, and civil society toward an impending humanitarian catastrophe facing cancer care in Jammu and Kashmir, specifically within our premier tertiary care institutions-SKIMS Soura and SMHS Hospital. At a time when cancer incidence across Kashmir is rising at an alarming rate, the state of Surgical Oncology infrastructure in the public healthcare sector reflects an astonishing lack of institutional vision. Surgical resection remains the cornerstone of curative cancer management. Yet, at SKIMS Soura-the apex tertiary care referral centre of the region-the entire Department of Surgical Oncology is current...