Newsletter of the Indian Cancer Society, .

Issue 2: September, 2020 Website : www.indiancancersocietydelhi.in

Dear Readers, ICS One Let’s Talk COVID has not stopped us! ICS Delhi has now joined ICS One - a Pan initiative where there Greetings to you from our Brave will be three verticals - Cancer Awareness, Cancer Screening and New World! Patient Support & Finance. This decentralised way of working will When we shut down operations in March, we were still basking ensure standar-disation and better coordination between all in the joy of the Vrindavan interpretation by our Artistes branches. against Cancer. We even undertook a visit to our Outreach project in the real Vrindavan on 13th March. Then. . BOOM! Our Ms Kiran Jaitley has been appointed as Active Adviser to ICS One. world went into lockdown, and we were left disoriented.

No one told Cancer to hold back. It continued to create its own Mrs Jyotsna Govil has been invited to join the Global mayhem. So now there were two terrorists rampaging across Advisory Committee of Our Views, Our Voices initiative of the the country and the globe. Patients were fearful, hospitals held NCD Alliance for the June 2020-Dec 2021 term. surgeries in abeyance, and with Social Distancing being the norm, screening had to close, as did our Volunteer Hospital Visits and Awareness Programs. Survivor’s Day Within a few short weeks, ICS discovered the joys of Digital platforms and quickly began to use the virtual world to In February, as usual, we advantage. Many Firsts followed: first World No-Tobacco Day celebrated Being Alive at our e-competitition, first General Body Meetings, first consultations Annual Event. Our enthusiastic with other branches, and now our very own e-Nargis! volunteers made it a resoun- World No-Tobacco Day went on-line, as did Summer Internships with Management Students. This was quickly ding success. followed by a Social Media Internship, enthusiastically snapped up by a varied group of young people. ICS e-learning Course World No Tobacco Day on Cancer Fundamentals stayed true to its schedule, with over Since schools were closed, we successfully completed our first online 3500 students. Now the e-Chaitnya (Hindi Course) is to follow. WNTD competetion in May. Some of the amazing entries can be Many volunteers were invited to participate in the huge numbers of webinars that sprang up. Now, as you see, we have viewed on our website. Soon after, ICS launched its campaign, our own series of webinars on the Enigma of Cancer taking "Tobacco ko kahen Na" on the Helo platform. centre stage in September. Please join our effort and update your knowledge. Specialist Doctors, Celebrity Survivors and us, Artistes Against Cancer mere mortals, will share knowledge and experience. You will find the e-Brochure of much interest. This year, the focus of our And so we move on, virtually and on ground. ICS Cancer Annual Programme was our Detection Centre is functioning at Babar Road under strict ongoing Outreach Programme, sanitization protocol. Prashanti is open for all who require Vrindavan. Padmashris Shovna post-mastectomy Bras and Prosthesis. Patients call up for Narayan and queries and Counseling. Look out for 2-min videos on Cancer brought the stage alive with Awareness on YouTube. Check (and Like!) our FaceBook page. Follow us on Instagram. Check out our website. their diverse oeuvres of Bharat We continue to work hard. Please encourage our effort. Natyam and Kathak. - Jyotsna Govil Drive Against Cancer Annual Seminar - THE ENIGMA OF CANCER Against all odds, our Charity Golf This year, with COVID 19 restrictions in place, we have replaced Event was held as scheduled. We the Seminar with a series of Webinars. had a record number of golfers 16th September 2020 : Gulabi Charcha - Breast Cancer. this time and our initiative, 23rd September 2020 : Swasth Vayu Swasth Jeevan - Head, "Hands Across the Globe", had Neck, Oral and Lung Cancers. a wonderful response from th 30 September 2020 : Girls, let's get talking - Gynae Cancers. donors. Conferences - Meetings - Workshops - Panel Discussions - Webinars

l Our volunteers attended a l Mrs Gulabani was a meeting of the Committee panellist on E Magazine’s on Petitions, , discussion, “Battles of for making the treatment of Wonder Women” as well Cancer affordable and as a webinar “Living with widely available. Cancer and Covid-19"

l l Mrs Govil attended Chronic Pain India held a workshop to demonstrate the NCD Conference the management of chronic pain. Mrs Jasuja in Sharjah where she attended the webinar. addressed two l Report on India's NCD targets, a Round Table sessions. Consultation was held in February 2020, in which delegates from Indian Cancer Society, Col. Tomar, Dr. l Mrs Indra Jasuja attended Priya Parmar and Mrs. Jyotsna Govil participated. a Panel Discussion on Cancer at Amity Interna- tional School. Social Media Outreach l Panel Discussion by Cancer Summit on “ India Fights Cancer “was attended by Mrs Govil. The "#Pink Ribbon to Beat Cancer" campaign was launched in early February on the Helo Social Media Platform to mark World Cancer Day. 1,091,613 people viewed this campaign in its first week.

l AFSTI (Association of Food Scientists and Technologists) held a seminar which was Picnic and Holi attended by Mrs Govil Just before the "lockdown", ICS managed to have a as Guest of Honour. funfilled picnic at the Nehru Park. l In April, some of our volunteers attended online Holi was celeb- training schedules with Mr Prashant Sinha of rated at NOVARTIS. Prashanti with l In July, Mrs Govil children who are presented a paper on battling cancer Universal Health and their Coverage (UHC), Non parents. Sprea- Communicable Diseases ding joy and distributing colour and sweets were (NCD) and Public Deepa Khemani, Health Systems at the Dr Sahi, Mrs National Committee Board. Shepherd and other volunteers l Mrs Govil was an honoured guest at the IHW from ICS. Council’s Gratitude Week, a tribute to our Health Guardians.

02 NARGIS Fighting Disease with Lifestyle and Diet Award Mrs Gulabani recieved This well attended Webinar was organized by the an award for Humanitarian Vasant Vihar Club. Mrs Ishi Khosla was the keynote Services from V Care, . speaker, joined by Renuka Prasad, Alka Sheel, Gunjan Malhotra and Inderjeet Sethi. Social Media Internship In July, a Social Media Intern- ship training was held online with 9 very enthusiastic interns Vrindavan Outreach Project Mr RR Mishra, Mrs Govil and Mrs E Learning Gulabani visited Vrindavan in Our E Learning course on March. Awareness talks were given Cancer Fundamentals has to assembled villagers and the 4195 participants so far. importance of Early Detection of The course has received Cancer was explained. approval from AIECT ( All India Council for Technical New Volunteer Training Education). Mrs. Jasuja and Mrs. Ummat trained 10 new volunteers in February. Digital Internship Taking unusual circumstances into consideration, this Radio Talks year ICS offered a Digital ICS Radio talks are aired on FM GOLD 100.1 MHz. Internship programme to The timing of talks are 1:05 pm to 1:25pm 8 interns. Mrs Gulabani, l 3rd January 2020 - on "Palliative Care" by Mrs. Indra Mrs Jasuja, Col Tomar and Jasuja. Mrs Parmar undertook the l 17th January 2020 - on "Survivors Day" by Mrs. Aruna Kapur. training on the Zoom l 7th February 2020 - on "World Cancer Day" by Mrs. Bharti Baveja. platform. l 21st February 2020 - on "Environment" by Mrs. Rekha Gulabani. l 6th March 2020 - on "Breast Cancer" by Mrs. Bharti Baveja. Online Counselling Since March 2020, no hospital volunteer could attend hospitals due to COVID 19. Medical assistance, however, Emotional Support : 1389 patients Mammography : 160 patients continued to be given to needy patients and we have Child Nutrition : 112 Children Awareness Talks : 10 put into effect a Telephone Helpline to assist patients No. of Patients Adopted : 25 HPV/DNA : 49 persons and caregivers. Details are on our Facebook page. Bras & Prosthesis(BCC): 95 Sugar (HB1AC) : 21 persons Cancer Screening: 2059 persons Webinar Renuka Prasad undertook a series of 3 Condolence well attended Webinars Narinder Wahi, a long on Breast Cancer in serving, dedicated May. volunteer, passed away peacefully in June 2020.

NARGIS 03 Call for Volunteers The Narcissus flower or Nargis in Hindi, Newly diagnosed cancer patients need hope, Persian and poetry, represents the courage and strength while they go through Beloved’s eye. It is also the symbol of hope cancer treatments. eternal, for its shy presence perfumes the air If you are a cancer survivor in good health, please of the darkest winter and hints of brighter contact us. times ahead. Cancer Survivors similarly are We need you. living symbols of hope and happiness.

Our Survivor Volunteers are in attendance at the following Clinics: Cancer Detection Centre IRCH No.42, Babar Road, New Delhi. Mondays 09:30 a.m. - 01:00 p.m. Tel : 23716941 03:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m. Fridays 03:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m. Co-ordinator : Satinder Kaur Mob. +91- 9990960035 Cancer Sahyog Ranjit Kaur Mob. +91- 9871488975 Indian Cancer Society, AIIMS (Fifth Floor Breast Clinic) B 63-64, Basement, South Extension Part-II, New Delhi - Wednesday & Thursdays 02:00 p.m. - 04:00 p.m. 110049 Saturdays 11:00 a.m. - 01:00 p.m. Tel : 011- 49424723 Co-ordinator : C. Rekha Gulabani Mob. +91- 9810862424 Email : [email protected] Anjali Sahajpal Mob. +91- 9899225570 Army R&R Hospital Prashanti Tuesdays 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. “Diagnostic, Healing and Rehab Center” Co-ordinator : Aruna Kapur Mob. +91- 9871669933 Thrity Cawasji Mob. +91- 9810027913 (An initiative of INDIA CANCER SOCIETY for LALA DIWAN CHAND TRUST) Batra Hospital Mondays 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 11/70, Vikram Vihar, Lajpat Nagar IV, Co-ordinator : Sandhya Gupta Mob. +91- 9818230518 New Delhi - 110 024 Usha Ohri Mob. +91- 9810366982 Tel : 011-41729393 Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre, Rohini Email : [email protected] Mondays 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Coordinator : Dr. Chanda Khurana Mob. +91- 9953591574 Kulwinder Lamba Mob. +91- 9811570417 Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre, Niti Bagh INDIAN CANCER SOCIETY Tuesdays 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Coordinator : Usha Ohri Mob. +91- 9810366982 CANCER SAHYOG Sandhya Gupta Mob. +91- 9818230518 NOTICE B L Kapur Memorial Hospital, Pusa Road The situation arising out of COVID-19 has necessitated On the request Doctors visit on different days. No fixed day. 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. a pause in the Emotional Support offered to patients Co-ordinator : Soumya Rajesh Mob +91- 9899401806 Sangita Malhotra Mob. +91- 9810016547 by Cancer Sahyog Volunteers at Delhi/NCR Hospitals. Delhi State Cancer Institute, Dilshad Garden We have put into effect a telephone Helpline to assist Fridays 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Patients and Caregivers. Co-ordinator : Sangita Malhotra Mob. +91- 9810016547 Soumya Rajesh Mob +91- 9899401806 Please Call: ICS -1 : 9990302073 Delhi State Cancer Institute, Janakpuri Wednesdays/ Fridays 10:30 a.m.- 01:30 p.m. ICS - 2 : 9871551754, 9013026626 Co-ordinator : R.R. Mishra Mob. +91- 9821879796 Give the operator your Name, where are you calling Medanta The Medicity, Gurugram (Gurgaon) from, the Name of the Patient, CR Number and Name Mondays 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. of the Hospital. Co-ordinator : Kamna Taneja Mob. +91- 9810152656 Please tell him what your query is. He will connect you Sunita Arora Mob. +91- 9810829826 to the right person. Artemis Hospital, Gurugram (Gurgaon) The process may take a short while. Please be patient. Fridays 10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. We are doing our best. Co-ordinator : Thrity Cawasji Mob. +91- 9810027913 Rita Bhalla Mob. +91-8527270116 Fortis , Gurgaon For Details Contact : Thursdays 10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Co-ordinator : Kiran Jaitley Mob. +91-9899273201 INDIAN CANCER SOCIETY Narain Mob. +91-9810175010 B 63-64, Basement, South Extension Part-II, New Venkateshwar Hospital, Dwarka Delhi - 110049 Wednesdays 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Tel : 011- 49424723 Co-ordinator : J S Ahluwalia Mob. - +91- 9971093609 E-mail : [email protected] Max Hospital, Shalimar Bagh (Twice a month) Saturdays 10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Website : www.indiancancersocietydelhi.in Co-ordinator : Dr. Chanda Khurana Mob. +91-9953591574 Anita Jain Mob. +91 9999338257 Cancer Help Line : 9910516562 Guru Harkrishan Hospital- Bala Pritam Cancer Care Editor : Kamna Taneja Tuesdays & Saturdays 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Co-ordinator : Kulbir Kaur Mob. +91- 9810695170 Ravinder Kaur Mob. +91- 9555464703 This issue of Nargis is sponsored by :