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Rajesh Dikshit
Researcher at Homi Bhabha National Institute
Publications - 115
Citations - 30219
Rajesh Dikshit is an academic researcher from Homi Bhabha National Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 91 publications receiving 26879 citations. Previous affiliations of Rajesh Dikshit include Tata Memorial Hospital & International Agency for Research on Cancer.
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Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012.
Jacques Ferlay,Isabelle Soerjomataram,Rajesh Dikshit,Sultan Eser,Colin Mathers,Marise Souto Rebelo,Donald Maxwell Parkin,David Forman,Freddie Bray +8 more
TL;DR: The GLOBOCAN series of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as mentioned in this paper provides estimates of the worldwide incidence and mortality from 27 major cancers and for all cancers combined for 2012.
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Suicide mortality in India: a nationally representative survey
Rajesh Dikshit,Prakash C. Gupta,Chinthanie Ramasundarahettige,Vendhan Gajalakshmi,Lukasz Aleksandrowicz,Rajendra A. Badwe,Rajesh Kumar,Sandip Roy,Wilson Suraweera,Freddie Bray,Mohandas K. Mallath,Poonam Singh,Dhirendra N Sinha,Arun S. Shet,Hellen Gelband,Prabhat Jha +15 more
TL;DR: This work aimed to quantify suicide mortality in India in 2010 by applying the age-specific and sex-specific proportion of suicide deaths in this survey to the 2010 UN estimates of absolute numbers of deaths in India.
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Global burden of cancer attributable to high body-mass index in 2012: a population-based study
Melina Arnold,Nirmala Pandeya,Graham Byrnes,Andrew G Renehan,Gretchen A Stevens,Majid Ezzati,Jacques Ferlay,J. Jaime Miranda,Isabelle Romieu,Rajesh Dikshit,David Forman,Isabelle Soerjomataram +11 more
TL;DR: The continuation of current patterns of population weight gain will lead to continuing increases in the future burden of cancer, and the need for a global effort to abate the increasing numbers of people with high BMI is emphasised.
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A Nationally Representative Case-Control Study of Smoking and Death in India
Prabhat Jha,Binu Jacob,Vendhan Gajalakshmi,Prakash C. Gupta,Neeraj Dhingra,Rajesh Kumar,Dhirendra N Sinha,Rajesh Dikshit,Dillip K. Parida,Rajeev Kamadod,Jillian Boreham,Richard Peto +11 more
TL;DR: If these associations are mainly causal, smoking in persons between the ages of 30 and 69 years is responsible for about 1 in 20 deaths of women and 1 in 5 deaths of men.
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Cancer survival in Africa, Asia, and Central America: a population-based study
Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan,Rajaraman Swaminathan,Hermann Brenner,Kexin Chen,Kee Seng Chia,Jian Guo Chen,Stephen Ck Law,Yoon Ok Ahn,Yong-Bing Xiang,B B Yeole,Hai Rim Shin,Viswanathan Shanta,Ze Hong Woo,N. Martin,Yupa Sumitsawan,Hutcha Sriplung,Adolfo Ortiz Barboza,Sultan Eser,Bhagwan M. Nene,Krittika Suwanrungruang,Padmavathiamma Jayalekshmi,Rajesh Dikshit,Henry Wabinga,Divina B. Esteban,Adriano V. Laudico,Yasmin Bhurgri,Ebrima Bah,Nasser Al-Hamdan +27 more
TL;DR: Variations in survival correlated with early detection initiatives and level of development of health services, and emphasises the need for urgent investments in improving awareness, population-based cancer registration, early detection programmes, health-services infrastructure, and human resources.