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Lieutenant-Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu stressed early breast cancer detection, affordable diagnostic imaging and wider access to screening while inaugurating the international medical congress.

The aim is to predict more accurately patients’ unique risk of breast cancer, and adjust their screening protocols accordingly.

The latest Lancet analysis suggests that if current trends continue, India could see one of the steepest proportional increases in breast cancer cases globally by 2050.

The burden is even heavier in cancer care, where experts estimate that 50% of patients face severe financial distress.

The state government has initiated a door-to-door cancer screening programme focused on early detection of these three cancers.

The findings have been published in the peer-reviewed journal Advanced Materials Interfaces, it added.