Chandigarh, Oct. 12 -- Breast cancer remains the most common cancer among women in Chandigarh, while lung cancer leads among men, according to the second report of the Chandigarh Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Registry, released at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) on Saturday.

The report, which analysed data from July 2018 to December 2021, found that 36% of all women cancer patients in Chandigarh were diagnosed with breast cancer followed by ovarian (7.4%) and cervix (6.6%) cancers. Among men, lung cancer accounted for 14.7% of all cases, followed by prostate (14%) and urinary bladder (6.7%) cancers.

Countrywide too, breast cancer is the most prevalent among women (27%), as per the Ministry of healt...