Kohima: Nagaland has been listed as one of the leading cancer affected states in India with reported detection rate of at least 500 new cases annually, but despite the alarming high cancer incidence there is still no cancer hospital in the State.

These statistics were revealed by the Officer of Cancer Control Programme Officer Nagaland Dr Hotokhu Chishi at the Cancer Awareness Programme held at Dimapur, where he revealed that 520 cases of cancer were detected in 2010 alone. Out of these, 348 were male and 172 female.