The State Cancer Institute at Government Medical College, Jammu, has recorded 9,427 cancer cases over the past five years, with most patients arriving only after their disease had progressed to Stage III or IV.
Hospital-Based Cancer Registry data from 2020–2024 shows that 5,351 cases were reported in men and 4,076 in women, reflecting a male-to-female ratio of 1.31:1 and indicating a higher cancer burden among men in the region.
Lung cancer was the most common cancer with 1,338 cases, followed by head and neck cancers (1,005), breast (704), hepatobiliary (681), genito-urinary (654), hematological cancers (653), esophageal (519), oral cancers (519) and cervical cancer (494).