Tata Memorial's two new projects at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Chandigarh are expected to be completed within two years.
These will be its third and fourth facilities, after the two existing hospitals in Mumbai and Kolkata.
Rajendra Badwe, Director of Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, said the two new projects were being set up at a cost of Rs 450 crore each. "Initially, these will be 150-bed facilities, which can be scaled up to 400 beds each," he told
On the incidence rate of cancer in India, Badwe said there were between 90 and 100 cancer diagnosed patients in every one lakh population in cities and between 40 and 50 in one lakh population in rural areas.
The higher incidence in cities is linked to urban life styles and obesity. Obesity can cause five different cancers, including breast cancer.
He, however said that the incidence rate in India was much lower than in the US, which had 350 patients in every one lakh population in the urban areas.