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• Cancer killed 5.35 lakh in India in 2011
  The Times of India Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:49 PM PDT
  Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra together accounted for 25% of all cancer deaths in India last year.
• MBBS can't treat cancer, panel told
  The Times of India Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:41 PM PST
  An MBBS doctor can neither treat nor dispense medicines to a cancer patient, director of medical education P H Shringare and director of public health Suresh Gupta have told Aurangabad information commissioner D B Deshpande.
• Mainpuri tobacco causing cancer ?
  Calcutta News Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:19 PM PST
  Pakistan's Sindh province is reported to have banned the "Mainpuri tambakoo". And Indian doctors and activists too are talking of an alarming rise in the number of oral cancer patients in Uttar Pradesh's Mainpuri district where the tobacco is manufactured.
• In Malwa, candidates promise cancer hospitals for votes
  The Times of India Thu, 26 Jan 2012
  Punjab's Malwa region that has produced maximum number of CMs including Parkash Singh Badal and Amarinder Singh, but people of the region travel to Bikaner in Rajasthan for affordable cancer treatment.