The main objectives of CIMS are:

a) To organize and establish Cancer Education and Early Detection facilities in a nation wide network as a coordinated effort for mass screening programmes on self sustaining basis in urban areas; provide free service to rural areas; promote cancer education and usher in preventive oncology as an effective tool in cancer control.

b) To provide free cancer diagnostic and therapeutic services to lower sections of the community/ military orphans / war widows at prominent areas of cancer incidence in India as a humanitarian measure; make such facilities affordable to the common man.

c) To promote cancer research in India.

d) To establish Cancer Care Centres for terminally ill patients.

1. PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR CANCER PREVENTION
Public Education programs have been conducted at Mahila Mandals, Industries, Urban Slums, Rural Areas, Tribal Areas etc. and the people have been educated to “prevent the preventable forms of cancer” and the “Significance of Delay” is explained to all the High Risk Groups to encourage them to undergo periodic screening.
School children were exposed to awareness on cancer prevention under Cancer Education Programs in Pune city and villages around/.They have been provided with audio–visual education and pamphlets were distributed free of cost to the participants.

2. SCREENING FOR CANCER EARLY DETECTION
Several Screening Camps have been held as out-reach Programs in urban slums and rural areas. High risk patients are identified and a steady follow-up is maintained.

Screening for women
Our health maintenance programme MATRUSEVA, a facility for women from lower socio-economic groups of society, is providing free treatment for common health disorders in the target population screening them for diseases such as cancer, tuberculosis, etc. or even dreaded diseases such as AIDS that require high cost treatment.

Screening of men over 55 years of age for prostate disorders
We have been conducting Screening Camps in Pune for the last four years for detection of Prostate disorders in men above the age of 55 years. The response from the senior citizens of our city has been very good.On an average 160-200 men are registered. Free Ultrasonography is provided for all those registered and an Urosurgeon examines each patient physically. Blood samples of all high risk cases identified during the camp are sent for PSA test. There were 153 beneficiaries in the camp conducted during 2001-2002.

3. CANCER PALLIATIVE CARE
The patient out reach program SATSEVA is a service based on the concept of Home Care programs and is the first of its kind in India with doctors outreaching the patients at home for providing free terminal care to the needy cancer patients right at their door step. The task involves not only providing adequate pain management through administration of oral morphine as per the norms laid down by the WHO, but also providing the much needed emotional and psychological support both to the patients as well as their families.

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