Factors influencing tobacco quitting: findings from National Tobacco-Quitline Services, Mumbai, India.

The Government of India established National Tobacco Quitline Services (NTQLS) to provide free and effective telephonic counselling to help people quit tobacco. The objective of the paper is to present the data of tobacco quitters who quit tobacco through NTQLS, Mumbai, in the years 2021-2022 and the factors that influenced tobacco quitting. This is a prospective study where individuals willing to quit tobacco utilised NTQLS.

Application of Rupantaran software to Sri Lankan hospitals: an innovative tool developed to merge population-based cancer registry data into CanReg5.

The purpose of a population-based cancer registry is to provide information on the disease burden for cancer control planning and is essential in studies on assessing the effectiveness of prevention, early detection, screening and cancer care interventions, where implemented. Sri Lanka is one of the Member States of the World Health Organisation's South-East Asia Region and receives technical support for cancer registration from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and the IARC Regional Hub based at the Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai, India. For data management of cancer registry records, Sri Lanka National Cancer Registry (SLNCR) uses the open-source registry software tool, CanReg5, as developed by IARC.

Sociodemographic Factors and Late-stage Diagnosis of Breast Cancer in India: A Hospital-based Study.

Context: Breast cancer (BC) is one of the major causes of cancer mortality in India. Late-stage diagnosis of BC is associated with poor survival. Identification of factors affecting late presentation of the disease could be an effective step to reduce BC mortality.

Lifestyle factors including diet and leukemia development: a case-control study from Mumbai, India.

In India, among males, leukemia rates vary across the country. The present unmatched hospital-based case- control study conducted at Tata Memorial Hospital included subjects registered between the years 1997-99. There were 246 leukemia cases and 1,383 normal controls.

Clinical outcome of early-stage endometroid adenocarcinoma: a tertiary cancer center experience.

Objective: Endometrial cancer (EC) outcome data from developing countries are sparse. We undertook this retrospective analysis to report outcome in our patient population.

Materials And Methods: Two hundred forty-nine patients with stage I and II and type I histology ECs referred/treated at our institution from 1998 to 2004 were analyzed.

Prostate cancer: a hospital-based survival study from Mumbai, India.

Background: Prostate cancer is common in elderly men, especially in western countries, and incidences are rising in low-risk populations as well. In India, the age-standardized rates vary between registries. Under these circumstances we have estimated the survival of prostate cancer patients based on age, family history, diabetes, hypertension, tobacco habit, clinical extent of disease (risk group) and treatment received.

Case-control study of risk factors for Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Mumbai, India.

Background: In the year 2010, it is estimated that nearly 0.36 million new cases and 0.19 million deaths with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma occurred.

Risk factors for prostate cancer: An hospital-based case-control study from Mumbai, India.

Background: In India, prostate cancer is one of the five leading sites of cancers among males in all the registries. Very little is known about risk factors for prostate cancer among the Indian population.

Objectives: The present study aims to study the association of lifestyle factors like chewing (betel leaf with or without tobacco, pan masala, gutka), smoking (bidi, cigarette), comorbid conditions, diet, body mass index (BMI), family history, vasectomy with prostate cancer.