Indian Health Ministry told to develop a framework for cancer screening

India’s Health Ministry has been given a three month deadline by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to develop a framework for a screening programme to detect cancers of the breast, cervix, and mouth.1

Ravi Mehrotra, director of the National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, who was also a part of an expert panel in September 2013 that put forward recommendations2 for screening and early detection of cervical, breast, and oral cancers, predicted that …