National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH) unveiled its cancer registry report 2018-2020 in a programme on Wednesday.
According the the report, a total of 83,795 new patients attended the out patient department of the hospital during the period of January 2018 to December 2020. Of them 42.6 percent or 35,733 had confirmed or provisional diagnosis of cancer.
It was also found that most of the cancer patients are from Dhaka, the report said.
