Cancer
Timely diagnosis of Cancer is crucial
Cancer is not one disease. Each nation and every society have different type of cancers, depending on the life style and local factors. How ever in India, tobacco related cancers like cancer of mouth; throat, lungs, oesophagus, pancreas, kidney etc form about 30-40% of the cases.
In the women cancer of the cervix and cancer of the breast are the two common cancers, which fortunately have a high potential for cure. Common cancer can be detected by self examination of oral and breast and VILI of cancer for the cervix. These tests are very cheap too. In metros, one can go for routine investigation of Female Health Passports, which has, apart from the cancer, information on preventive aspects of 2 other disease-hyper tension and diabetes. Available at an affordable price, the password would act as a reference point for its holder. GCRI also boasts of a unique cancer exhibition that gets visited by more than 30,000 people every year, and cancer related health check up at the community oncology centre, which sees more than 5000 people per year.