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Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology (December 2022) 13 (Suppl 1):S67–S69 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13193-022-01614-7 LE T TER TO THE EDITOR 1 1 Arun Chaturvedi · Vijay Kumar Received: 18 June 2022 / Accepted: 30 July 2022 / Published online: 25 August 2022 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Indian Association of Surgical Oncology 2022 Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) is India’s most populous state with a Agra, and Lucknow had by the sixties acquired cobalt 60 population of more than 240 million densely packed (829 per machines. KNMH at Allahabad was the first institution in sq km) in its 75 districts. The state was much larger before U.P. to start cobalt 60 radiotherapy in 1953. The J K Cancer 2000 when the new state of Uttaranchal (later renamed Utta- Institute at Kanpur was established by the government of rakhand) was carved out of Uttar Pradesh from its Northern U.P. in 1961 to provide its citizens with the best contempo- region. Despite its huge size and population and its political rary treatment for cancer. The institute was formally inau- pre-eminence, U.P. has always lagged behind in develop- gurated in 1963. ment. The Human Development Index (HDI), a composite Dr. N.C. Misra sowed the seeds of
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