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National Cancer Registry Programme (ICMR-NINE, Bengaluru)
The programme that counts cancer in India: population and hospital registries whose reports give the country its official estimates of new cases, leading cancers and stage at diagnosis.
Also called: NCRPICMR-NCDIRNational Centre for Disease Informatics and ResearchICMR-National Institute of Noncommunicable Disease Epidemiology
Overview
The ICMR National Cancer Registry Programme has run since 1982, coordinated from Bengaluru by what was the National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research and is now the ICMR-National Institute of Noncommunicable Disease Epidemiology (ICMR-NINE). Its 2020 report drew on 28 population-based and 58 hospital-based registries covering 2012-2016 (667,666 cases) and projected 1,392,179 new cancers for 2020, with breast, lung, mouth, cervix and tongue the five leading sites; a 2022 update estimated 1,461,427 cases (crude rate 100.4 per 100,000) and a 12.8% rise by 2025, and put lifetime risk at about one in nine.
The registries also show where India is different: most breast (57%), cervical (60%) and head and neck (66.6%) cancers present at a locally advanced stage, the north-east has the highest incidence rates in the country, and tobacco-related cancers dominate in men. These numbers drive the National Cancer Grid's priorities and the screening and tobacco-control programmes.
Location
Bengaluru, IN
Type
research institute
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#182 · 30 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 30 from 15 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-15.
Matched to National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research, including child institutions. 17 works · 1,264 citations · 76% open access · 0% clinical trials · 6% reviews.
Oncology works per year
42022
32023
72024
32025
02026
Most works
- Prashant Mathur10 works
- Anita Nath8 works
- Krishnan Sathishkumar6 works
- Thilagavathi Ramamoorthy4 works
- Meesha Chaturvedi4 works
- Priyanka Das4 works
- Prashant Mathur3 works
- Eric Zomawia2 works
- Gautam Majumdar2 works
- Nifty Tomy2 works
Most cited
- Population-based cancer registries
- Hospital-based cancer registries
- National cancer estimates and projections
- Stage-at-diagnosis and survival studies
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