As many as 10 lakh cancer cases have already been detected in India in current year with the case load set to shoot to 11.48 lakh by 2015 and 13.20 lakh by 2020. A whopping 27 pc of these cancers are associated with tobacco and increase in incidence of cancers of lung, thyroid and brain tumours is rising among the young. The latest findings of National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP) of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) show that among males cancers of lung, mouth, oesophagus and stomach are the leading cancers sites across all registries while in females the breast and cervix cancers are the leading conditions. National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research, a dedicated Govt institute which collects cancer data, operates through 219 centres across India comprising 28 Population Based Cancer Registries which have 250 major institutions contributing to data base. The 25 PBCRs that comprise the basis of new findings cover 7.45 pc population of India. ICMR experts said cancer incidence rate is expressed as age adjusted or age standardized rate (AAR) according to world standard population) per 100,000 persons. As in the earlier 2006-08 ICMR cancer report, in the latest report from 2009 to 2011 Aizawl district in Mizoram shows the highest AAR in both males and females. All PBCRs in Gujarat and Maharashtra and Bhopal PBCR have revealed mouth as leading site of cancer while cancer of oesophagus leads in registries in Assam and Meghalaya. Stomach cancer is largest cancer in Sikkim and Mizoram while cancer of the nasopharynx is leading cancer in Nagaland.