# National Cancer Registry Programme (ICMR-NINE, Bengaluru)

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## TL;DR

The programme that counts cancer in India: population and hospital registries whose reports give the country its official estimates of new cases, leading cancers and stage at diagnosis.

## Summary

The ICMR National Cancer Registry Programme has run since 1982, coordinated from Bengaluru by what was the National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research and is now the ICMR-National Institute of Noncommunicable Disease Epidemiology (ICMR-NINE). Its 2020 report drew on 28 population-based and 58 hospital-based registries covering 2012-2016 (667,666 cases) and projected 1,392,179 new cancers for 2020, with breast, lung, mouth, cervix and tongue the five leading sites; a 2022 update estimated 1,461,427 cases (crude rate 100.4 per 100,000) and a 12.8% rise by 2025, and put lifetime risk at about one in nine.

The registries also show where India is different: most breast (57%), cervical (60%) and head and neck (66.6%) cancers present at a locally advanced stage, the north-east has the highest incidence rates in the country, and tobacco-related cancers dominate in men. These numbers drive the National Cancer Grid's priorities and the screening and tobacco-control programmes.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Also known as: NCRP; ICMR-NCDIR; National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research; ICMR-National Institute of Noncommunicable Disease Epidemiology
- City: Bengaluru, IN
- Type: research-institute
- Website: https://icmrnine.org

## Sources

- ICMR-NINE (formerly NCDIR): https://icmrnine.org
- Cancer Statistics 2020 (JCO Glob Oncol): https://doi.org/10.1200/GO.20.00122
- Cancer incidence estimates 2022 and projection 2025 (IJMR): https://doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_1821_22
- ICMR-NCDIR, Report of National Cancer Registry Programme 2020 (2012-2016), Chapter 5, Fig. 5.12: gall bladder (C23-C24), comparison of age-adjusted incidence rates of 28 PBCRs: https://ncdirindia.org/All_Reports/Report_2020/resources/Chapter5ComparisonofcancerincidenceandpatternsofallPopulationBasedCancerRegistries.pdf

## Connected records

- cancers: [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/), [Gallbladder cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/gallbladder/), [Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/), [Non-small-cell lung cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/)
- fronts: [AI & Computation](https://onco.cc/fronts/ai-computation/), [Prevention & Risk](https://onco.cc/fronts/prevention/)
- technologies: [Cancer registries and population surveillance](https://onco.cc/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/)
- institutions: [Cancer Institute (WIA), Adyar](https://onco.cc/institutions/cancer-institute-adyar/), [Indian Council of Medical Research](https://onco.cc/institutions/icmr/), [International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/iarc/), [Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology](https://onco.cc/institutions/kidwai-memorial-institute-of-oncology/)
- people: [Prashant Mathur](https://onco.cc/people/mathur-prashant/)
- bottlenecks: [Data silos](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-data-silos/), [The hardest cancers are found late](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-early-detection/)
- key papers: [Cancer Statistics, 2020: Report from National Cancer Registry Programme, India](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-mathur-ncrp-cancer-statistics-2020/)

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