Causes and Effects of Cancer in Tamil Nadu : A Path Analytic Approach

Introduction: In recent decades, incident of cancer cases have been systematically and continuously registered all over the world. World Health Organization revealed that the cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for 7.6 million deaths in 2008 and continues to rise to over 13.1 million in 2030. In India there is an increasing trend of cancer patients during the last few decades. In Tamil Nadu, cancer cases of males were 28,246 in 2001 and females were 30,283; in 2006 male 32,496 and female 35,298; in 2011 male 37,106 and female 40,737. Thus, the present research aims to study the causes and effects cancer in Tamil Nadu. Objectives: 1) To analyse the determinants of cancer and 2) to evaluate whether all the measures fit the recommended value, indicating a good fit of the path model for the collected sample data. Sample: This study based on scientifically tested deliberate/purposive random sampling procedure. The information was collected from 1000 registered cancer patients receiving healthcare from 10 multi-speciality hospitals in Tamil Nadu. Methodology: Collected data were analyzed with the help of SPSS software package and analysis of moment structure (AMOS). Statistical technique like confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate the child status. In order to evaluate the association among the variables used in the model, Path Analysis with Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used for data analysis. Conclusion: The findings of the research showed that, absolute fit indices suit with the sample data and reveal that the proposed model has the acceptable fit, by way of satisfying with the recommended values.

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