# Prashant Mathur

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## TL;DR

Directs the institute that runs India's cancer registries and is first author of the national report estimating 1.39 million new cancers in 2020.

## Summary

Prashant Mathur leads the ICMR institute in Bengaluru that coordinates the National Cancer Registry Programme and other noncommunicable disease registries. He is first author of Cancer Statistics, 2020: Report From National Cancer Registry Programme, India (JCO Global Oncology), which used 28 population-based and 58 hospital-based registries to project 1,392,179 cancers in 2020 and documented that most breast, cervical and head and neck cancers present at a locally advanced stage, and a senior author of the 2022 estimates and 2025 projections.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Role: Director, ICMR-National Institute of Noncommunicable Disease Epidemiology (formerly NCDIR), Bengaluru
- Specialisms: Cancer registries; Cancer epidemiology; Noncommunicable disease surveillance; Health informatics

## Sources

- ICMR-NINE: https://icmrnine.org
- PubMed author search: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Mathur%20P%5BAuthor%5D%20National%20Cancer%20Registry%20Programme%20India

## Connected records

- technologies: [Cancer registries and population surveillance](https://onco.cc/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/)
- institutions: [Indian Council of Medical Research](https://onco.cc/institutions/icmr/), [National Cancer Registry Programme (ICMR-NINE, Bengaluru)](https://onco.cc/institutions/icmr-ncrp/)
- bottlenecks: [Data silos](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-data-silos/)
- key papers: [Cancer Statistics, 2020: Report from National Cancer Registry Programme, India](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-mathur-ncrp-cancer-statistics-2020/)

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