Screening finds cancer while it is still treatable.

At Poladpur in February 2026, doctors from Tata Memorial Centre’s Centre for Cancer Epidemiology screened 88 people for breast, cervical and oral cancer in a single day. Adding oral cancer screening meant that, for the first time, our camps reached men as well as women — which matters in a country where tobacco-related cancers of the mouth are among the most common and the most preventable.

Trained volunteers are what let us scale.

In October 2025, 54 of our volunteers completed a two-day workshop run by Tata Memorial Centre’s Division of Implementation Sciences and Behavioural Research, including hands-on training in clinical breast examination and cervical swab collection using anatomical models. They left with certificates from TMC. A further ten were sponsored to a cervical cancer workshop at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital in November.

Awareness has to reach people where they already are.

We have taught in a hospital auditorium, an IT company’s video call, an orphanage run by Mahila Seva Mandal, a college hall in Warje, and — most unusually — through a traditional kirtan in Goa, where a breast cancer surgeon set cancer awareness to devotional verse and held an over-capacity hall for two and a half hours.