{"entity":{"id":"indian-cancer-society","kind":"institution","name":"Indian Cancer Society","aka":["Indian Cancer Society, Mumbai","Indian Cancer Society, Delhi"],"tldr":"India's first voluntary national cancer charity, founded in Mumbai in 1951, which pays for treatment for poor patients, runs screening camps and survivor support, and keeps the Mumbai cancer registry.","summary":"Indian Cancer Society was established in 1951 by Dr D. J. Jussawalla and Naval Tata as India's first voluntary, non-profit national organisation for cancer awareness, detection, cure and survivorship. It depends on public donations.\n\nIts work spans awareness, early detection through cancer detection centres and mobile camps, a treatment fund for underprivileged patients, accommodation and rehabilitation, survivor support groups (including Ugam, formed by childhood cancer survivors from Tata Memorial Hospital's after-completion-of-therapy clinic), and population-based cancer registries for Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Aurangabad. ICS says its Mumbai registry was the first in India and that it is the only NGO to run a cancer registry. It shares research with doctors through the Indian Journal of Cancer, and has a Delhi branch.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"ICS: profile","url":"https://www.indiancancersociety.org/about-ics/ics-profile.aspx"},{"label":"Indian Cancer Society home page","url":"https://www.indiancancersociety.org/"},{"label":"National Cancer Grid: member list","url":"https://www.ncgindia.org/hospitals-and-institutions/members"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":["early-detection","supportive-care"],"technologies":["cancer-registries-surveillance"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["national-cancer-grid","tata-memorial"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":["indian-journal-of-cancer"],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Mumbai","country":"IN","lat":19.004,"lng":72.843,"institutionType":"consortium","website":"https://www.indiancancersociety.org","programs":["Cancer detection centres and mobile screening camps","Treatment fund for underprivileged patients","Rehabilitation and survivorship programmes","Population-based cancer registries","Indian Journal of Cancer"]},"route":"/institutions/indian-cancer-society/","neighbours":{"section":[{"id":"early-detection","kind":"section","name":"Early Detection & Screening","route":"/fronts/early-detection/"},{"id":"supportive-care","kind":"section","name":"Supportive Care & Survivorship","route":"/fronts/supportive-care/"}],"technology":[{"id":"cancer-registries-surveillance","kind":"technology","name":"Cancer registries and population surveillance","route":"/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/"}],"institution":[{"id":"cankids-kidscan","kind":"institution","name":"CanKids KidsCan","route":"/institutions/cankids-kidscan/"},{"id":"national-cancer-grid","kind":"institution","name":"National Cancer Grid of India","route":"/institutions/national-cancer-grid/"},{"id":"tata-memorial","kind":"institution","name":"Tata Memorial Centre","route":"/institutions/tata-memorial/"}],"journal":[{"id":"indian-journal-of-cancer","kind":"journal","name":"Indian journal of cancer","route":"/journals/indian-journal-of-cancer/"}]}}