Breast Cancer Cases Double in Chennai; Doctors Urge Early Screening

Over the past decade, Chennai has witnessed a quiet but consequential shift in its health landscape: breast cancer has overtaken cervical cancer to become the most common malignancy among women, with cases nearly doubling as the city's rapid urbanization reshapes how its people eat, move, and live. The Madras Metropolitan Tumor Registry now records an age-adjusted rate of 37.9 per 100,000 women, a figure that reflects not merely better detection but a genuine rise in incidence tied to sedentary habits, processed diets, and the chronic stresses of modern urban life. Yet within this sobering tre