Abstract

Cancer incidence has been increasing throughout world including India in the recent years.the present study is focussed on studying epidemiology of cancer in teritary care hospital,south India. district i n South India . This is retrospective study conducted at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Hospital , Warangal , Andhra Pradesh, India from June 2010 to June 2011. We analysed the patients admitted during this study period, all possible information regarding age, gender, demographic data , cancer type, site and stage -wise cancer, treatment , follow-up period were gathered and analysed statistically. A total of 236 patients , of mean age 49.45 years (SD: 11.27), including 52.33% male and 47.67% female were admitted during the study period. The most predominant age group was 41 -60 years . Among male, tongue cancer (11.92%) and among female breast cancer were more predominant (17.86%). The sub -types of cancers , histopathological variants , stage wise presentation, treatment administered and follow-up periods were explained in detail .This study explains the proportion of various cancers cases in south Indian population and provides a source of information, which help public health planners , administrators , healthcare system, and general public in the primary prevention and early detection of cancer which helps in detecting the cancer early .