The health sector in the state of Assam is on the up as various developmental projects to improve healthcare have been ushered in the state. In yet another step towards development BJP National President Amit Shah along with industrialist Ratan Tata recently laid the foundation stone of 19 cancer speciality centres across the state which will boost the potential to drastically improve cancer care in the state and the northeast region as a whole. Technological advances in the healthcare sector have certainly curtailed down other infection-related diseases in India's northeast region but the burden of cancer is quite alarming in the