ICMR-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research
ICMR's cancer prevention institute near Delhi, focused on the cancers India can prevent: cervical cancer through HPV screening and vaccination, and oral cancer through tobacco control.
Overview
The institute began as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology and was renamed the National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research; it sits in Noida on the edge of Delhi and, in ICMR's words, conducts basic, clinical and applied research on the common cancers prevalent in India. Its work centres on cervical cancer screening (cytology and HPV testing), HPV vaccination studies, oral cancer and smokeless tobacco, including a WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control knowledge hub on smokeless tobacco, and training of health workers for the national screening programme for oral, breast and cervical cancer.
- Cervical cancer screening and HPV research
- Smokeless tobacco and oral cancer
- Screening training for health workers
Pages like this
not linked directly; found by shared links- PersonJade Goody
Shares HPV DNA testing and self-sampling, HPV & HBV vaccination, Prevention we already have is not deployed, The hardest cancers are found late.
- IdeaEliminate infection-caused cancers: HPV, hepatitis B and C, H. pylori and EBV
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), HPV & HBV vaccination, Prevention we already have is not deployed, Cervical cancer.
- IdeaSwitch every country to single-dose HPV vaccination and add catch-up to age 26
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), HPV & HBV vaccination, Prevention we already have is not deployed, Cervical cancer.
- PersonElisabete Weiderpass
Shares World Health Organization – Cancer Programme, Chemoprevention & risk-reducing surgery, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO).
- PersonAndré Ilbawi
Shares World Health Organization – Cancer Programme, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), HPV & HBV vaccination, Cervical cancer.
- Key paperEffect of screening on oral cancer mortality in Kerala, India
Shares Chemoprevention & risk-reducing surgery, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Prevention we already have is not deployed, The hardest cancers are found late.
- PersonPartha Basu
Shares HPV DNA testing and self-sampling, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), HPV & HBV vaccination, Cervical cancer.
- Key paperHPV screening for cervical cancer in rural India (Osmanabad)
Shares HPV DNA testing and self-sampling, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Prevention we already have is not deployed, The hardest cancers are found late.