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Khanna, Divya http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7856-8059
Sharma, Priyanka http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1346-3453
Budukh, Atul http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6723-802X
Vishwakarma, Rajesh http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2540-9940
Sharma, Anand N. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7340-6181
Bagal, Sonali http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2510-1751
Tripathi, Varsha http://orcid.org/0009-0009-4606-6818
Maurya, Vijay Kumar http://orcid.org/0009-0009-6170-4232
Chaturvedi, Pankaj http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3520-1342
Pradhan, Satyajit http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0376-6418
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Received: 14 December 2023
Accepted: 22 February 2024
First Online: 6 March 2024
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: The hospital has an agreement with the district health administration to conduct cancer registration. This study solely utilised the de-identified data of population-based cancer registry, Varanasi which is part of the hospital services and routine public health surveillance to monitor impact of cancer control programme in the district. Furthermore, no individual participants were contacted for the study. Such activities are exempted from the ethical review by an institutional review board as per the national [CitationRef removed] and international guidelines [CitationRef removed]. Hence, ethics approval or consent to participate was not deemed to be necessary for the study. The study was conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki regarding research with human subjects.
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
