Projects Funded by the India Cancer Initiative

Many projects funded by the India Cancer Initiative are through our American Cancer Society University trainings. Indian organizations that have participated in the training can apply for competitive seed grants to either launch new or strengthen existing cancer fighting projects. Majority of these projects have received funds in the range of five to ten thousand dollars.

Some of our ACSU projects include:

Establishing Screening Methods through Research

In collaboration with the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, the India Cancer Initiative is supporting research on emerging low-cost cancer screening methods. Investigators in the Department of Preventive Oncology at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai have been awarded a grant to assess the viability of a two-step cervical cancer screening process to establish diagnostic methods that reduce the number of false positive cervical cancer cases. Results of the study should inform economic- and ethically-appropriate population-based early detection programs in India.

The same researchers began a pioneer study in the summer of 2007 to compare the performance of three screening tests in detecting oral cancers. These findings will inform national and global cancer control efforts in low-resource settings that report high incidence of disease.

Cancer Early Detection

  • Comparing Three Methods for Oral Cancer Screening at the Tata Memorial Hospital (Mumbai, 2007)
  • Breast Cancer awareness and Cervical Cancer screening project (Kolkata, 2007)
  • Cost-Effective Early Detection & Screening technology in early detection of Breast and Cervical Cancer (Delhi, 2006)
  • A Systematic Study on Educating Young Urban Women on benefits of Breast Self-Examination in Kolkata, (Kolkata, 2006)
  • Cervical and Breast Cancer Prevention Programme among the Tea Labors residing in Dewan Group Tea Estate (Assam, 2006)
  • Cancer Early Detection Programme (Chennai, 2006)
  • Cervix Cancer Screening by two steps (VIA & HPV DNA Tests) Technique among Low Socio-economic Population (Mumbai, 2005 & 2006)
  • Cervical and Breast Cancer Prevention Program in the Suburbs of Calcutta- 2003

Palliative Care and Patient Support Projects

  • Advancing Palliative Care in India (Hyderabad, 2005& 2007)
  • Pediatric Palliative Care Center (Hyderabad, 2007)
  • Palliative Care professional education in Western India (Mumbai, 2007)
  • Centre for palliative care, awareness, and advocacy in Northern India (Rajasthan, 2007)
  • Addressing Palliative Care through Improved Cancer Pain Policy in the State of Uttar Pradesh (UP, 2007)
  • Development of Patient Navigators in Malappuram (Kerala, 2007)
  • Improving awareness, opioid access and coverage of community based palliative care services (Assam, 2007)
  • CanKids Bereavement and Palliative Counseling Clinic in New Delhi, India & Developing Appropriate tools for assessing Coping Skills (Delhi, 2006)
  • Sensitizing and Raising Awareness about Palliative Care Among Doctors (New Delhi, 2006)
  • Development Cancer Resource and Patient Tracking Databases (Mumbai, 2006)

Fighting Tobacco Use

  • Smoke-free public awareness campaign in Kottayam (Kerala, 2007)
  • Awareness and Monitoring Campaign for effective enforcement of smoke- free laws in public places in (Delhi, 2007)
  • Ensuring Sustainability of Smoke-free Chandigarh Initiative (Chandigarh, 2007)
  • Tobacco control advocacy campaign to raise awareness of smoke-free laws (West Bengal, 2007)
  • Implementation and/or Enforcement of Smoke-free Law in Shimla (Himachal Pradesh, 2007)
  • Implementation and Enforcing the Smoke Free Provisions of the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act (Chandigarh, 2006)
  • Advocacy seminar at Global Youth Meet 2006 (Delhi, 2006)
  • A proposal to mobilize community support and enhance community awareness on legal provisions pertaining to the exposure to secondhand smoke in public places (Kerala, 2006)
  • Prevention of Secondhand Smoke: Efficacy of the Cigarette and Other Tobacco Products Act (Karnataka, 2006)
  • Enforcement of the Existing Laws through Scientific Strategies and Interventions to Cease Exposure to Secondhand Smoke in Public Places (Delhi, 2006)
  • Engaging Like Minded Public Health Organizations in Strengthening of Existing Tobacco Control Laws (Orissa, 2006)
  • Awareness Programs for Students on Palliative Care and the Ill Effects of Tobacco (Kerala, 2006)
  • Advocacy Forum for Tobacco Control (Mumbai, 2001)