Tobacco-linked cancers surge among younger Indians beyond lung disease

Growing number of younger Indians developing aggressive tobacco-related cancers, many diagnosed at advanced stages with poor prognoses.

On the occasion of World No Tobacco Day, India's oncologists are confronting a truth that public awareness has long obscured: tobacco's reach into the human body extends far beyond the lungs, and it is now claiming younger lives through cancers of the esophagus, pancreas, and head and neck. The pattern emerging in clinics across the country reflects a generation that began using tobacco earlier, whose bodies are now presenting the compounded consequences of that early exposure. What medicine is witnessing is not a new disease, but an old harm arriving in unfamiliar faces—and at stages where in

Tobacco-linked cancers surge among younger Indians beyond lung disease

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