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Viswanathan Shanta
Researcher at Cancer Institute
Publications - 32
Citations - 2615
Viswanathan Shanta is an academic researcher from Cancer Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Population. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 32 publications receiving 2231 citations.
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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.
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Independent and combined effects of tobacco smoking, chewing and alcohol drinking on the risk of oral, pharyngeal and esophageal cancers in Indian men
Ariana Znaor,Paul Brennan,Vendhan Gajalakshmi,Aleyamma Mathew,Viswanathan Shanta,C Varghese,Paolo Boffetta +6 more
TL;DR: A significant dose‐response relationship for duration and amount of consumption of the 3 habits with the development of the above 3 neoplasms was observed and significant decreases in risks for all 3 cancer sites were observed in subjects who quit smoking even among those who had quit smoking 2–4 years before the interview.
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The growing burden of cancer in India: epidemiology and social context
Mohandas K. Mallath,David G. Taylor,Rajendra A. Badwe,Goura Kishor Rath,Viswanathan Shanta,C S Pramesh,Raghunadharao Digumarti,P Sebastian,Bibhuti Bhusan Borthakur,Ashok Kalwar,Sanjay Kapoor,Shaleen Kumar,Jennifer Gill,Moni Abraham Kuriakose,Hemant Malhotra,Suresh C. Sharma,Shilin Shukla,Lokesh Viswanath,Raju Titus Chacko,Jeremy Pautu,K.S. Reddy,Kailash S Sharma,Arnie Purushotham,Richard Sullivan +23 more
TL;DR: This first of three papers examines the complex epidemiology of cancer, the future burden, and the dominant sociopolitical themes relating to cancer in India.
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The burden of cancers and their variations across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2016
Preet K Dhillon,Prashant Mathur,A Nandakumar,Christina Fitzmaurice,G Anil Kumar,Ravi Mehrotra,Deepak Kumar Shukla,Goura Kishor Rath,Prakash C. Gupta,Rajaraman Swaminathan,JS Thakur,Subhojit Dey,Christine A. Allen,Rajendra A. Badwe,Rajesh Dikshit,R S Dhaliwal,Tanvir Kaur,Amal C Kataki,Rudrapatna N Visweswara,P Gangadharan,Eliza Dutta,Melissa Furtado,Chris M Varghese,Deeksha Bhardwaj,P. M. Muraleedharan,Christopher M Odell,Scott D Glenn,Manjit S Bal,P P Bapsy,James R Bennett,Vijay K Bodal,Joy K Chakma,Sekhar Chakravarty,Meesha Chaturvedi,Priyanka Das,Vinay Deshmane,Nitin Gangane,James Harvey,P Jayalekshmi,Kaling Jerang,Sarah Charlotte Johnson,Pramod Kumar Julka,Debnath Kaushik,Vinotsole Khamo,Shravani Koyande,Michael Kutz,W B Langstieh,K B Lingegowda,R C Mahajan,Jagadish Mahanta,Gautam Majumdar,Natesan Manoharan,Aleyamma Mathew,Bhagwan M. Nene,Sanghamitra Pati,Prasanta Pradhan,Vinod Raina,Ranganathan Rama,C Ramesh,Krishnan Sathishkumar,Kathryn Schelonka,P Sebastian,Katya Anne Shackelford,Janmesh Shah,Viswanathan Shanta,Jagannath D Sharma,Atul Shrivastava,Sopai Tawsik,Brij B Tyagi,K Vaitheeswaran,Elizabeth Vallikad,Yogesh Verma,Eric Zomawia,Stephen S Lim,Theo Vos,Rakhi Dandona,K. Srinath Reddy,Mohsen Naghavi,Christopher J L Murray,Soumya Swaminathan,Lalit Dandona +80 more
TL;DR: The substantial heterogeneity in the state-level incidence rate and health loss trends of the different types of cancer in India over this 26-year period should be taken into account to strengthen infrastructure and human resources for cancer prevention and control at both the national and state levels.
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Delivery of affordable and equitable cancer care in India
C S Pramesh,Rajendra A. Badwe,Bibhuti Bhusan Borthakur,Madhu Chandra,Elluswami Hemanth Raj,T Kannan,Ashok Kalwar,Sanjay Kapoor,Hemant Malhotra,Sukdev Nayak,Goura Kishor Rath,T G Sagar,P Sebastian,Rajiv Sarin,Viswanathan Shanta,Suresh C. Sharma,Shilin Shukla,M. Vijayakumar,D K Vijaykumar,Ajay Aggarwal,Arnie Purushotham,Richard Sullivan +21 more
TL;DR: This work explores the complex nature of cancer care systems across India, from state to government levels, and addresses the crucial issues of infrastructure, manpower shortages, and the pressing need to develop cross-state solutions to prevention and early detection of cancer.