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Childhood cancer registry - first report
February 2 , 2025
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- The Chennai PBCCR (Chennai Population-Based Childhood Cancer Registry) is the country’s first dedicated childhood cancer registry.
- It registered 241 paediatric cancer cases (139 boys and 102 girls aged up to 19) in the Greater Chennai Corporation in 2022.
- Of the 96,000 new patients diagnosed with cancer in Tamil Nadu in a year, 2,500 are children.
- One of the key findings was that the median time from symptom onset to the diagnosis was 12.5 days.
- Also, the median time from diagnosis to the start of treatment was two days.
- Among the high-resolution cases, 81.2% received curative treatment.
- Chennai’s age-standardised paediatric cancer incidence rate (136.3 per million) ranks among the highest in the country, among the Indian population-based registries.
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