Jammu- The State Cancer Institute at the Government Medical College Jammu has documented 9,427 cancer cases over a five-year period, with the majority of the patients reporting to the hospital only after the disease had advanced to Stage III or Stage IV.

According to the latest Hospital-Based Cancer Registry data from 2020 to 2024, 5,351 patients were men and 4,076 women, placing the male-to-female ratio at 1.31:1, and suggesting a higher cancer burden among males in the region.

Lung cancer emerged as the most common malignancy, with 1,338 cases, followed by head and neck cancers (1,005), breast (704), hepatobiliary (681), genito-urinary (654), haematological cancers (653), esophageal (519), oral cancers (519), and cervical cancer (494).

Other major cancers included intestinal (456), cancers of unknown primary or CUPs (410), ovarian (354), lymphoma (305), stomach (279), brain (263), prostate (233) and bone and soft-tissue cancers (210), in addition to 186 other women's cancers, 111 skin cancers, and 53 classified as other types, the data shows.

Jammu district accounted for the highest number of cases at 3,671, followed by Udhampur (943), Kathua (855), Doda (694), Rajouri (675), Samba (580), Reasi (532), Poonch (424), Kishtwar (292), and Ramban (222). Another 539 patients were from outside the Jammu division.

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