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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.
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.
Its 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.
Shares Cancer registries and population surveillance, National Cancer Grid of India.
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