India, Aug. 11 -- The estimated number of incident cancer cases in Punjab was 41,337 in 2023, 42,288 in 2024 and 43,196 in 2025, Prataprao Jadhav, Minister of State in the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) told the Rajya Sabha.

Cancer incidence in India

The global age-standardised cancer incidence rate declined by 7.1 per cent between 1990 and 2023, from an estimated 220.6 to 205.1 per 1,00,000 population, according to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2023 Cancer study, published in The Lancet.

In contrast, the World Bank lower-middle-income country group, the income category India is classified under, recorded a rise of 28.6 per cent in age-standardised cancer incidence over the same period, from approximately 97.8...