By TV Padma

In India, cancer researchers often lack comprehensive country-specific data, which makes it difficult for them to probe why some cancers predominate here and to know what prevention and treatment strategies work best. To plug this data gap, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), located in New Delhi, released its first set of recommendations on tracking and treating three kinds of cancers in late December, with instructions on 17 more cancer types in the pipeline.

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