Table 1. HNC burden among different age groups by region and gender (2012–2019).

Age group	Region	Male		Female
		Number of new cases	ASIRa	Number of new cases	ASIRa
00–19 (years)	India	184	0.2	90	0.1
	Central	12	0.2	9	0.2
	East	3	0.1	3	0.1
	North	33	0.2	14	0.1
	Northeast	31	0.2	16	0.1
	South	46	0.3	25	0.2
	West	60	0.2	22	0.1
20–39 (years)	India	6,642	7.7	1,667	2.0
	Central	790	15.0	158	3.1
	East	213	6.3	63	1.9
	North	1,255	8.1	260	1.8
	Northeast	758	5.1	375	2.6
	South	1,206	6.2	317	1.6
	West	2,421	8.8	493	2.0
40–59 (years)	India	25,813	52.6	7,235	15.8
	Central	1,854	58.4	603	20.8
	East	926	36.3	276	12.4
	North	4,726	57.8	919	12.6
	Northeast	4,962	62.6	1,477	20.2
	South	5,316	45.0	1,787	15.1
	West	8,030	52.1	2,172	15.4
60+ (years)	India	23,407	114.9	7,805	36.9
	Central	1,406	106.5	513	36.9
	East	943	81.1	293	26.9
	North	4,312	127.2	1,108	33.0
	Northeast	4,465	155.3	1,327	46.2
	South	5,723	114.1	2,386	42.8
	West	6,559	99.1	2,177	31.6

^aASIR: Age-standardised incidence rate per 100,000 population

Bold values represent the region-wise highest ASIR among male and females in a particular age-group