The fact that 178,500 new breast cancer cases occur and 90,500 women die of it every year underscores the urgent need for reducing breast cancer burden in India.
Dr. Atamjot K Grewal shares with us her experience of being early diagnosed with breast cancer, overcoming it successfully, and being actively involved in setting-up facilities to aid in Early Cancer Detection.
The uniqueness of this program is that citizens were ensured of an end-to-end service by Karkinos Healthcare. At no point was the citizen made to drop out of the programme. The staff and volunteers of Karkinos and the Panchayat strived to ensure that high risk citizens, identified in the early detection camp, were guided appropriately to the next step towards cancer care.
Successful integration of approaches from mathematics, physics, and engineering with cancer biology may be our best hope to understand complex systems of cancer and to develop effective strategies for cancer treatment.
