Analysis reveals rising digestive and breast cancers in Bangladesh, highlighting the need for better cancer control strategies.
In this large tertiary cancer hospital in Bangladesh, respiratory system, digestive organ, and breast cancers represented the highest burden, with rising proportions of proportional increases in digestive, hematopoietic, and breast cancers and declines in respiratory and lymph node cancers, provide early signals of an evolving cancer landscape. While not population-representative, these trends highlight the urgent need to establish government-supported PBCRs in well-defined subnational regions to inform effective cancer control strategies for Bangladesh.
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