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58/17,Kalakshetra Road,
Thiruvanmiyur,
chennai 600041.
contact: 98402 41444
Provides emotional and spiritual support to palliative care patients
CALCUTTA ASSOCIATION OF LARYNGECTOMIES
Address: 26 Ballygunge Gardens, Kolkata - 700019
Phone number: 4407368
Working in the area of: Cancer support
The organisation works with patients suffering from cancer of the larynx, catering to their emotional and
social needs.
HITAISHINI
Address: CD 54, Salt Lake, Sector-1, Kolkata - 700064
Phone number: 3375817, 3580616
Working in the area of: Cancer support
It is a breast cancer support group affiliated to the International Breast Cancer Support Service Network in
Switzerland.
CAN-STOP
Address: C/O Sundaram Medical Foundation, Dr. Rangarajan Memorial Hospital, Shanthi Colony, 4th
Avenue, Anna Nagar (W), Chennai - 600040
Phone number: 6284256, 6220108
Email: canstop@vsnl.com
Working in the area of: Cancer support
The organisation offers counselling services to cancer affected patients and their families. The basic goal is
to help people learn more about dealing with cancer and cancer related problems. It also raises funds for the
blood banks and drug banks. It has a special programme called Can Wish to fulfil the wishes of critically ill
children. It organises anti-tobacco campaigns in schools and colleges.
Patients of cancer often say that one of the best ways for them to live life to the fullest is to become
knowledgeable about the disease and the various support vehicles available.
Learning about the diagnosis and treatment options available may help you to make decisions about your
care. The first step in the learning process begins with talking to your physician. Every patient’s cancer
diagnosis is different. Addressing concerns and getting information is the beginning of the learning process.
"Children with Cancer support Group” started in January 2004 at Cancer Institute, Adyar, Chennai,
addresses issues on education and answering basic questions on cancer.
This group supported by Sanofi Aventis and Headed by Dr Anita Chandra is running for the last 18 months
at Cancer Institute, Chennai, India. So please free to send your questions to anitachandra@yahoo.co.in.
Sanctuary
Adyar Cancer Institute
Chennai - 600 020.
Mobile: 91-9841094282
Ranga Kumar joined the Adyar Cancer Institute as a volunteer some 20 years ago.
To start with, the volunteers assisted the poor and illiterate patients at the outpatients ward with paperwork.
Then they felt there was a crying need to interact with them at a more emotional level. With permission
from Dr Shantha, the institute's director, Ranga and another volunteer, Girija, started actively counselling
cancer patients. Sanctuary itself came into existence 15 years ago.
Sanctuary volunteers thus give the patients a sense of belonging and a feeling that there is someone out
there to talk to them and share their problems, and to reassure and provide them with emotional help. As
counsellors, they do more of listening, and encourage the patients to open up and talk. The group has also
formulated its own training programs, and one of the rules is, 'If you are stressed, you should call your co-
volunteer, ventilate, and go home'.
SAHAAYIKA
Mrs. Girija Sudhreendran
AH 60, New 32, 5th Street,
Anna Nagar
Chennai 600036
Tel: 044-42171217
Mobile: 91-9840053520
SAHAAYIKA is a Trust registered on 20th Aug, 2003 and the trustees are; Sudheendran, Girija & Neerja
working at Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai and Apollo Specialties at Chennai.
"Having fought and conquered cancer, our mission is to reach out to patients to support them emotionally
and financially ". The main objectives are to provide financial assistance for persons challenged by the
diagnosis and treatment of cancer, specially children and young persons and to support institutions and
hospitals that provide free detection and treatment of cancer for the poor. The trust also aims to provide
psychosocial, legal and other forms of support to cancer patients and help them rejoin the mainstream of
life.
Under Sahayika, cancer survivor Neerja started the Apollo Cancer Support Group which is attached to
Apollo Specialty Center. They provide psychosocial support to cancer patients.
A charitable trust aimed to provide love of a home and facilities of a hospital for cancer patients who are in
an advanced stage of the ailment.
The objective is to improve the quality of life, to control distressing symptoms like vomiting, constipation,
breathlessness, achieve a pain-free state, and to provide psychosocial support.
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Mission:
To care and to manage people with progressive, incurable, terminal diseases and to improve the end-of-life
quality of dying people. Mrs. Deepa Muthaiya and her two friends came together to form the DEAN
FOUNDATION. They were motivated by a doctor who told them about palliative medicine, that helps
terminally ill patients spend their last days in comfort. Mrs. Muthaiya is an M.Phil in Communication. She
headed the customer service cell of a successful paging company. 'The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying'
by S. Rinpocha inspired her to work with dying patients.
Jeevodaya Hospice
1/86 Kamraj Road,
Mathur, Manali Post,
Chennai - 600 068.
Tel: 044-25555565
Palliative care offers a holistic approach to physical, emotional, social and spiritual care. "It is technically
the last six months of their life but it can extend up to one year." The Foundation, set up in 1998, takes
"care of all patients dying of any disease." The 50-bed Jeevodaya Hospice at Mathur in Manali, which was
set up in 1990, is a pioneer in offering care to cancer patients. The staff of Jeevodaya says there is a need
for awareness of the concept. They give free palliative care to patients with advanced cancer. Hospices are
the last resort for people sent away by hospitals when treatment does not help. More than 80 per cent of
those requiring palliative care suffer from physical pain and need medical attention, they note. Pain, oozing
ulcers, fall in haemoglobin count are factors the terminally ill have to contend with.
CANSTOP
AC 64 Annanagar West,
Chennai - 600 040.
Phone: 044-26220108
E-mail: canstop@vsnl.com
Website: www.canstop.org
Canstop and children: Providing assistance to children of the poor with cancer is one of Canstop's first
priorities. Activities include a Drug Bank to provide drugs to the needy, a Blood Bank, Play Therapy, the
Milky Way scheme to supplement the diet of children with cancer, Mother's Friend programme to keep
mothers employed during their child's treatment, and ‘CanWish’ to help fulfil the dreams of critically ill
children.
‘CanStop’ for women and ‘CanStop’ screening: Camps and programmes for early detection of cancer.
‘CanStop’ Directory. A compilation of resources and services for cancer patients... and much more.
8) Atma Sanjivini Foundation
Chennai, India.
Mobile: 91-9840241444
Email: atmasanjivini@yahoo.co.in
A voluntary healing center for Cancer and AIDS people helps them to cope with their feelings and
emotions.
The CPAA provides referral services and counselling to the poor and needy patients. It organises picnics
and outings to the patients.
CANCER SAHYOG
Address: C/o Indian Cancer Society, Q5A Jangpura Extn., New Delhi - 110014
Phone number: 4319572, 4314907
Working in the area of: Cancer support
The organisation has been set up to provide emotional support to people living with cancer. Cancer Sahyog
also provides cancer drugs to needy patients.
MASTECTOMEE ASSOCIATION
Address: Sahi Hospital Building, 1A Jangpura Mathura Road, New Delhi - 110024
Phone number: 6410962, 6121856, 3019328
Working in the area of: Cancer support
The organisation provides support services for cancer patients and their families. A major activity of the
organisation is the procurement and provision of breast prosthesis for women to have undergone breast
removal surgery.
SAHAYATA
Address: H.No. 83, Sector 17, Panchkula, Haryana
Phone number: 647385
Fax: 653347
Email: sahayata@satyam.net.in
Working in the area of: Cancer support
In addition to creating awareness about the disease, the organisation also undertakes research in that area.
They run a breast clinic that provides prostheses and guides patients who require cosmetic surgery.
CanSupport
Harmala Gupta
38, 2nd Floor, Shahpur Jat,
New Delhi-110 049
Karmayogi: Harmala Gupta
Tel: +91-11-26711212
Email: cansup_india@hotmail.com, harmalagupta@hotmail.com
In the absence of a social support system, it becomes increasingly difficult for one earning family member
to provide optimal patient care, buy medicines, and look after the family needs. This often leads to the
exhaustion of family savings with subsequent debt. Home Care a Good Choice and CANSupport is
committed to providing free home care service as well as free medicines, nutritional supplements, and food
rations to patients who need them.
Home care reduces the pressure on the already overwhelmed medical facilities. CANSupport in
collaboration with the Pain and Palliative Care Clinic at Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital (IRCH), which is
managed by doctors from the Department of Anaesthesiology at AIIMS, offers a full-fledged domiciliary
palliative care program that would provide patients and their families with high-quality medical, nursing,
psychological, social, and spiritual support at home.
V CARE
Address: Golden Jubilee Block, 1st floor, Tata Memorial hospital, Parel, Mumbai - 400012
Phone number: 4146750 (extn. 4511)
Working in the area of: Cancer support
It is a voluntary organisation in Mumbai which helps cancer patients and their families to deal with the
disease and its aftermath. The organisation, established in 1994, provides emotional support to cancer
patients through ongoing activities, all of which are funded by donors and well wishers. The organisation
distributes food grains and milk tokens twice a month to outstation patients, to ensure that the patients get
adequate nutrition during their treatment. In some cases, the organisation bears the cost of treatment
procedures like bone marrow transplants etc.
COU-RAGE INDIA
The Cancer Aid Foundation,
Mr. Venkat Iyer (Founder President)
Prithvi Palace, Ocean Wing,
Link Road, Dahisar (W).
Mumbai – 400 068.
Website: http://www.courageindia.org/contact.htm
Cancer used to be thought of as a virtual death sentence. Yet more and more people have learned to view
this disease in a very different light. Many now recognize that living with cancer means learning to live
with a chronic disease. It means learning how to manage symptoms and treatments while returning to as
many of the normal activities of daily living as possible. It is important to have life go on as usual or at
least as close to usual as you can make it.
The point is that a cancer diagnosis does not have to be absolutely devastating - although it can be if you let
it. The key is to not feel as though you are a helpless victim of blind fate. Sometimes it may seem like a
struggle, but you - just like many people before you - can learn to live with cancer.
Address 2:
5 Malhotra House,
First floor, Opp GPO,
Mumbai - 400001.
Phone: 22656509 (10 am to 5 pm)
Fax: 22697255
Email: kavitakulkarni@indiatimes.com
website: www.cpaaindia.org
Notes: www.helpyourngo.com/comp_info.asp?h_CodeScrip=162
Karmayog Profile: www.karmayog.com/ngos/cpaa.htm
DREAM FOUNDATION
107, Municipal Industrial Estate
Dr. E Moses Road,
Gandhi Nagar, Worli
Mumbai 400 018
Tel: 24973412
Mobile: 9820626210
Fax: 24973413
Email: dfcc@dreamfoundationcancercare.org, aarif@kmac.info
Website: www.dreamfoundationcancercare.org
Dream Foundation is a charitable institution, which provides support services to cancer patients undergoing
treatment at the major oncology centers in Mumbai. The services include - guidance for medical treatment,
emotional support and counselling, funds to subsidize rehabilitation expenses and scholarships for
children's education.
Dr Reddy's Helpline
Tel: 9820356667
Karmayogi: Dr. Advani (Head of Department)
Mobile: 9821157706
Dr Reddy's Laboratories launched its fifth Breast Cancer Helpline, at Jaslok Hospital, in association with
Helping Hand, a Mumbai-based NGO.
Notes: Comprehensive campaigning against cancer, leading to adequate diagnostic and treatment facilities.
REGISTRATION NO: F - 402 BOM YEAR INC: 1951
Profile: www.karmayog.com/ngos/ics.htm
Links: www.helpyourngo.com/Comp_info.asp
Notes: Takes care of the people who are suffering from cancer & provides them with free medicines and
food.
Also see our website www.oralcancerawareness.org for photos and lot of information on mouth cancer.
Also see http://mouthcancer1.tripod.com/id2.html
Karmayog Profile: www.karmayog.com/ngos/sangeeta.htm
VCARE
Tata Memorial Hospital
R. no, 183, Golden Jubilee Block,
Parel
Mumbai-400 012.
Tel: 2414 6750 x 4511
The organisation aims at creating awareness among people about cancer and organises cancer screening
camps for patients. It provides support services for terminally ill patients and the poor and the needy.
Counselling
Highly skilled and professionally trained in counselling, clinical social workers are on hand to provide
short-term counselling free of charge.
Resources
The social workers at BIO serve as a link between you, the health care system, and the community. Based
on your specific needs, the social worker will help identify appropriate resources. With changing personal
needs, you may find yourself needing help with resources related to:
Dr Palepu Jagannath, chairman, department of surgical oncology, Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai, launched the
vertical portal, indiacancer.org in June 2000. This non-profit organization went on to include the Crusade
Against Cancer Foundation.
The Web site contains information about cancer, how you can detect it, myths about cancer, treatment and
care if you have the disease, cancer treatment for children and the medicines available. It also helps you
search for specialists and cancer treatment centers. All patients who need financial help will be displayed as
thumbnails; the donor can then choose the patient he wants to help. Once the patient receives the backing to
take care of his/her treatment costs, his/her profile is taken off the list. You can also volunteer for the
Crusade Against Cancer by investing your time and/or your money. The information is available at
www.indiacancer.org.