The Integrated Health and Wellbeing (IHW) Council has officially released a groundbreaking white paper, titled “Understanding Patient Experiences, Quality of Life and Unmet Needs''. The study spotlights the severe physical, psychological, and financial hurdles faced by individuals battling late-stage bladder cancer. Bladder cancer is the tenth most common cancer globally, yet its true epidemiological footprint in India is heavily obscured by systemic underreporting, lack of public awareness, and concentrated urban registries. With mixed- methods the newly released whitepaper integrates quantitative data and qualitative patient narratives across major healthcare centers in the Delhi-NCR region, including AIIMS Delhi, Paras Hospital, Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital and Medical College and Can Support (A palliative care non for profit organization)
