The rationale for cancer to be made a notifiable disease in India.

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Public Health Action Pub Date : 2025-06-04 eCollection Date: 2025-06-01 DOI:10.5588/pha.25.0006

R Singh, A L Frank

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Cancer cases are rising in India. However, despite attempts to make cancer a notifiable disease, the Ministry of Health in India has resisted this. Their reasoning is that cancer is not a communicable disease and does not have community spread. We highlight flaws in the logic of this argument and highlight how a legal mandate to report cases would give impetus to the decades-old National Cancer Registry Program. Robust record keeping would allow real-time epidemiological analysis and highlight those areas where priority could be given to both prevent and treat cancer.

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印度将癌症列为法定疾病的理由。

印度的癌症病例正在上升。然而，尽管试图使癌症成为一种法定疾病，印度卫生部却对此予以抵制。他们的理由是，癌症不是一种传染病，不会在社区传播。我们强调了这一论点逻辑上的缺陷，并强调了报告病例的法律授权将如何推动已有数十年历史的国家癌症登记计划。健全的记录保存将允许实时流行病学分析，并突出那些可以优先预防和治疗癌症的领域。

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