India, Feb. 4 -- Cancer is associated with stigma, fear and anxiety. Apart from a cancer patient who has to undergo a host of tests and treatments like chemotherapy and radiation, the relatives accompanying the patients also suffer mental agony. India has a huge burden of cancer and according to Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) estimates on the 'Burden of Cancers in India', seven cancers accounted for more than 40 per cent of the total disease burden: lung (10.6 per cent), breast (10.5 per cent), oesophagus (5.8 per cent), mouth (5.7 per cent), stomach (5.2 per cent), liver (4.6 per cent) and cervix uteri (4.3 per cent). As per biomedcentral.com, the highest incidences of cancer are in the North (2,408 patients per 100,000) foll...