India, May 6 -- Dr Rawal, kindly provide us an overview of prostate cancer and its prevalence in India vis-a-vis the world.

Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in men. As per the GLOBOCON report on prostate cancer, an estimated 1.4 million diagnoses and 375,000 deaths worldwide in 2020. The incidence is low in Eastern and South-Central Asia but rising. In India, the projected number of cases for 2020 was 51,979and the numbers are only increasing. It is pertinent to note that there is an underestimation of incidence in India due to a lack of a population-based cancer registry, underreporting, and social stigma of cancer detection among others.

The prevalence rate of prostate cancer is higher in certain geographie...