Indian Cancer Society is a non-government, non-profit, national organization for awareness, detection, and providing cure and treatment for

cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...

patients in India. It was established in 1951 at the initiative of Naval Tata with noted

oncologist Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study, treatment, diagnosis and prevention of cancer. A medical professional who practices oncology is an ''oncologist''. The name's etymological origin is the Greek word ὄγκος (''ó ...

Dr. D. J. Jussawalla and as India's first voluntary, non-profit, national organization for awareness, detection, and providing cure and treatment for cancer patients in India. Indian Cancer Society is a pioneer institution in fighting cancer across India. The facilities with head office in

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...

was established in 1951 and a branch in

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was set up in 1983 at behest of K. K. Mehta. Many noted personalities, corporate and charitable trust like

Sir Ratan Tata Trust Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT) came into being in 1919 with a sum of Indian currency 8 million. It is under the ownership of Ratan Tata. Established in accordance with the will of Sir Ratanji Tata, the Trust is now one of the oldest grant bestowing ...

, A. H. Wadia Trust, Pirojsha Godrej Foundation are associated with organization to fund its activities to provide treatment and rehabilitation to cancer patients at minimum cost. It is associated with

Tata Memorial Hospital The Tata Memorial Hospital is situated in Parel, Mumbai, in India. Also popularly known as TMH. It is a specialist cancer treatment and research centre, closely associated with the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer ...

, which is considered as one of the best cancer hospitals in India providing treatment and rehabilitation programs for cancer survivors. They also do research and publish data on types of cancer patients in India.

History

India's national anti-cancer association, the Indian Cancer Society, was established in 1951, as a registered public trust under Bombay Public Trust Act,1950 and the society's Registration Act, 1860. The institution is the first and the largest of its kind in

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and it also established a Rehabilitation centre at Parel,

, in 1958. The activities of society includes undertaking complete care of poor cancer patients by offering food, medicines, transport, prostheses, colostomy bags, counselling services, social welfare and job placement services and also helping them in self employment, in particular for those coming from rural areas. In addition the society also undertakes programmes and projects which educates general public about the factors relevant for cancer and conducts relevant educational training for doctors. In September 2020,BIG FM and Indian Cancer Society had launched ‘Together against Cancer’ month-long campaign which was aimed at creating awareness about the dreadful disease and help raise funds for those suffering from cancer during the COVID pandemic.

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