The Narcissus flower or Nargis in Hindi, Persian and Urdu poetry, represents the Donate l Volunteer Beloved’s eye. It is also the symbol of hope eternal, for its shy presence perfumes the air of the darkest winter and hints of brighter times ahead. Cancer Survivors similarly are living symbols of hope and happiness. NARGIS Newsletter of the Indian Cancer Society, Delhi.

Issue 2: September, 2018 Website : www.indiancancersocietydelhi.in Our Survivor Volunteers are in attendance at the Cancer Detection Centre following Clinics: No.42, Babar Road, New Delhi. IRCH Tel : 23716941 Let’s Mondays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Talk Dear Readers, End of an Era Cancer Sahyog 02:30 p.m. - 04:30 p.m. The last few months at ICS have Shri K. K. Mehta ( 01.01.1925 - 27.03.2018 ) Fridays 02:30 p.m. - 04:30 p.m. Indian Cancer Society, been happily full of activity, target achievements and Our much loved Founder, Mr. K. K. Mehta, Co-ordinator : Deepa Khemani Mob. +91- 9873440902 B 63-64, Basement, South Extension Part-II, events. We began our year with a super successful hung up his boots on the 27th March after a Ranjit Kaur Mob. +91- 9871488975 New Delhi - 110049 Survivors Day event, followed by a evening of brilliant long and illustrious career. Much will be said AIIMS (Fifth Floor Breast Clinic) Tel : 011- 49424723 music by the Char Yaar Group. We’ve attended many about the magnificent edifice he built in the Wednesday & Thursdays 02:00 p.m.- 04:00 p.m. Email : [email protected] service of suffering humanity , but not many Saturdays 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. stimulating work-shops and have even held some of Co-ordinator : Rekha Gulabani Mob. +91- 9810862424 Prashanti our own. Our workshop on “Role Play “ was a first for know that Mr Mehta’s razor sharp vision first Asha Aggarwal Mob. +91- 9210751831 “Diagnostic, Healing and Rehab Center” most of our volunteers and much appreciated and focussed on the Indian Cancer Society. He insisted on a professi-onally run institution where Cancer Awareness Army R&R Hospital (An initiative of INDIA CANCER SOCIETY for applauded. and Primary Screening were given the importance they deserved. Tuesdays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. LALA DIWAN CHAND TRUST) Like every year, the third quarter of the year is when Co-ordinator : Rashmi Vohra Mob. +91- 9871554777 11/70, Vikram Vihar, Lajpat Nagar IV, we hold our Annual Seminar. This year, we have a topic He demanded complete transparency in all dealings, leaving no Beena Singh Mob. +91- 9811682705 room for any funny business. Nothing, certainly no ego, stood in the New Delhi - 110 024 which is the “ flavour of the season ” - Artificial way of him achieving his dreams. He was the only CEO who demoted Batra Hospital Tel : 011-41729393 Intelligent, or AI as it is popularly called. Of course, our himself regularly, going from being Chairman to Vice Chairman . Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Email : [email protected] focus will be on AI in the Health Sector. Co-ordinator : Usha Ohri Mob. +91- 9810366982 At ICS he appointed able deputies and was a living example of his Artificial Intelligence is a vast and complex subject. To Sandhya Gupta Mob. +91- 9818230518 Cancer Insurance value systems. It was with great joy that he visited our new offices in Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute & Research Centre, Rohini our limited understanding, it has been created by December 2017 and with the greatest pride, we showed him around. Cancer treatment is expensive. Avail of Cancer human intelligence, programmed with necessary Mondays & Fridays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Today we stand in the shadows , praying that all that he stood for, his Coordinator : Kulvinder Lamba Mob. +91- 9811570417 Insurance for yourself and your family algorithms . The machines are now endowed with the humanity and humility, will percolate to each one of us that works R.R. Mishra Mob. +91- 9821879796 intellectual process of the human mind - the ability to selflessly in ICS. B L Kapur Memorial Hospital, Pusa Road reason, discover a pattern and meaning from a mass Tuesdays & Fridays 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Call for Volunteers of pre fed data, to generalise this and give unbiased Co-ordinator : Sangita Malhotra Mob. +91- 9810016547 Newly diagnosed cancer patients need hope, opinions. H e a l t h B e n e f i t s o f Krishna Mehta Mob +91- 9911178654 courage and strength while they go through Indian Cancer Society has been aware of the Delhi State Cancer Institute cancer treatments. complexity of the subject, but not its existing scope or VOLUNTEERING Fridays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. If you are a present/future capacity. Since AI is already in Volunteering reduces the body’s Co-ordinator : Sangita Malhotra Mob. +91- 9810016547 cancer survivor stress and also releases endorphins operation in Healthcare, it is necessary for us to Yogita Singh Mob +91- 8447089117 in good health, (the brain’s natural painkillers)* explore the ways in which it impacts the gamut of Medanta The Medicity, Gurugram (Gurgaon) please Screening, Diagnostics and Treatment. Our Seminar 95% of individuals feel good after Mondays & Wednesdays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. contact us. volunteering* this year seeks to step beyond the comfort of “ dead Co-ordinator : Kamna Taneja Mob. +91- 9810152656 We need you habit” and encourage fresh thinking as well as new Indra Jasuja Mob. +91- 9958804370 Regular volunteers were 10 times ways of operation. more likely to be in good health Artemis Hospital, Gurugram (Gurgaon) than people who didn’t volunteer* Fridays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. For Details Contact : For our present Session, we have a panel of experts Co-ordinator : Thrity Cawasji Mob. +91- 9810027913 INDIAN CANCER SOCIETY who are leaders in this field, who will strive to educate Kamal Srinivasan Mob. +91-9818486492 B 63-64, Basement, South Extension Part-II, without frightening. We urge you all, young and old, to come and partake of this enlightening experience . Fortis , Gurgaon New Delhi - 110049 said volunteering said volunteering Thursdays 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Tel : 011- 49424723 Last in this editorial, but First on our list , are our makes them feel makes them feel happier** healthier** Co-ordinator : Kiran Jaitley Mob. +91-9899273201 E-mail : [email protected] Devoted Volunteers. A huge Thank You for all you Madhu Narain Mob. +91-9810175010 Website : www.indiancancersocietydelhi.in have been doing. ICS would not be what it is without Venkateshwar Hospital, Dwarka each one of you. Wednesday 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Cancer Help Line : 9910516562 - Kamna Taneja said volunteering said volunteering Co-ordinator : J S Ahluwalia Mob. - +91- 9971093609 Editor : Kamna Taneja makes them feel makes them sleep Sudha Ahluwalia Mob. +91-9810093609 less stress** better** This issue of Nargis is sponsored by : on Thursday Visit totheTrulifeOfficeinBirmingham of Helen,theBreastCancerManageratTrulife.Theyhavebeen Angela hasbeenabletomanagethisthroughthegoodoffices quality onesforaverysmallamount. expensive inIndia,sopatientsareveryhappytoreceivegood incurred incustomsclearance.Siliconeprosthesisarevery Healing Centeforasmalldonationtohelpusrecoverthecosts provides theseprosthesistopatientsat airfreight andICSclearstheminIndiathroughcustoms. much biggerthanexpected.Consignmentsnowcomeby herself whenevershevisitedIndia.Thisprojecthastodaygrown sending usafewperiodically,andevenbringingsomeover l l l l l l 20 BenefitsofW l l l l l l Builds aerobicfitness. 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Service) provideseachpatientanewoneeveryyear,freeof have runitforthelast6-7years.TheNHS(NationalHealth hospitals intheUK’sNHSbytrainednursesandfitterswho conducting abreastprosthesisfittingprogrammeinvarious cost andtheoldoneisdiscarded.Theycollectthese,wash sanitizer themandareabletosendusother countries forreuse.TrulifepaysfreightchargesbutIndian Cancer Societypaysforthecustomsclearance.Beautifulbrand new brasarealsobeingsent.Theywanttosendswimwearand other accessoriesalso,butweneedtogetroundtheCustoms/ Excise departmentforawavieroftheirfees.Asnow,wehave been promisedreturnofGSTlevied,butthishastobeactually doing so.Slowlyandsurely,sinceweareontherighttrack, swimwear andotheraccessories. us tostocktheentirerangemanufacturedbyTrulife:Bras, are confidentthatgenerousdonorswillcomeourwayenabling received! present thereisapaucityoffunds,whichpreventsusfrom The NationalCapitalRegionandothercities.However,at enable ustoextendthisremarkableserviceotherNGOsin Many issueswerediscussedoneonwhich,hopefullywill How tofollowa Doctors Prescription: (Common Abbreviations) Rx =Treatment Dx =Diagnosis q =Every qd =Everyday qod =Everyotherday qh =EveryHour SOS =Ifneeded PC =Aftermeals AC =BeforeMeals BID =TwiceaDay TID =ThriceaDay OD =OnceaDay QID =Fourtimesaday BT =BedTime hs =BedTime BBF =BeforeBreakfast BD =BeforeDinner TW =Twiceaweek T/W =Thriceaweek SQ =subcutaneous IM =Intra-muscular ID =Intradermal IV =Intravenous QAM =everymorning QPM =everynight Q4H =every4hours QOD =everyotherday HS =atbedtime PRN =asneeded PO or"peros"=bymouth AC =beforemeals PC =aftermeals Mg =milligrams Mcg/ug =micrograms G orGm=grams 1tsf=Teaspoonful (5ml) 1 TFS=Tablespoonful (15mg) of commonmedical Here aresomeexamples terminology with suffixes: Pain termsendwith-algia. 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Radiologyhasbeenattheforefrontofusing tificial IntelligenceinHealthcare Delhi Ar travelled fromoutsideDelhitobeapartofthisprogramme. icing onthecakewasrampwalkofbreastcancersurvivors who ment programme.Whilethevolunteersjoinedinwithrealgusto, the putting upaflashmobtocollectpeopletakepartintheentertain- help fromMercerwhotookoveralotofthevolunteerdutieswhilealso February, ieon10thFebruaryatPalikaParking,ConnaughtPlacewith Survivor’s Daywascelebratedasalwaysonthe2ndSaturdayof Sur magical performance.Theeventwaswellreportedinthemedia India HabitatCentre.Thewell-knowngroupChaarYaargave a This annualeventwasheldon24March2018attheAmphitheatre with tistes againstCancer the Media vivor has animated All social its the ’s Day social published media explanation, media medium. content presence & are ICS (Images, on a has great Facebook, people caringfor Healthcare isabout people. 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Imaginewhatawealthofdatalostthatcouldhave to affordexistingtechnologyofstoringdataonelectronic ICS screeningdatainhardcopyonlybecausewewerenotable question fortheyearsthatImournedlossof30 screening, especiallyatNGOlevelbyICS?Iwasaskedthesame have embracedAI.Butwhydreamofitsapplicationto Facebook and out by interns to the is the one audience. audience through platform Posts is social where only are N media. through ICS shared A - JyotsnaGovil,ViceChairman connect R Kiosks G organic and I S queries very show 03 reach. well ICS are with Info made the & What are Antioxidants ? tomatoes, along with a little olive oil are the best sources of These days, I try to be more aware of my need to share stories the phone, and I barely said a word. At the end of our call, she lycopene. and talk about myself. I try to ask questions that encourage the said, “Thank you for your advice. You’ve really helped me work Antioxidants are chemicals that fight a process in your cells Selenium is a mineral that helps your thyroid work. It is found in other person to continue. I’ve also made a conscious effort to some things out.” The truth is, I hadn’t actually offered any called oxidation. The main source is plant based foods, though water and soil and can help protect against lung, colon and listen more and talk less. advice. She didn’t need advice or stories from me. She just some antioxidants are made by our bodies. If you regularly eat a prostate cancer. Eat plenty of grains, onions, garlic, nuts, soya Recently, I had a long conversation with a friend of mine who needed to be heard. variety of fresh vegetables and fruits, you will be getting a beans, seafood, meat and liver. was going through a divorce. We spent almost 40 minutes on This excerpt was edited from We Need to Talk: How to Have healthy dose of natural antioxidants essential for fighting Conversations That Matter, by Celeste Headlee. disease. Some of the common antioxidants are Vitamins C and Flavonoids . More than 4,000 of these are found in fruits and E, Beta Carotene, Selenium and Manganese. vegetables in different combinations. They may help protect Rise Against Cancer Break Free Again against heart disease, cancer, arthritis, ageing, cataracts, memory Each antioxidant works differently. Together they form a team Rise Against Cancer was held on 14 August 2018 at the Once again “Break Free” was held at Medicity, Gurugram. Hosted loss, strokes, inflammation and infections. To get these important that fights free radicals. Free radicals are chemicals that cause Delhi Public School Gurgaon Sector 45. Aditi Misra, Principal by Medanta in collaboration with Google and ICS volunteers, the antioxidants, you could have the following- green tea, grapes, oxidation and this damages the body’s cells and genetic material Events DPS and Mrs. Renuka Prasad Hon. Secretary along with ICS event was a resounding success once again. There was music, red wine, apples, chocolate and berries. inside them. Your body makes free radicals as it processes food, Volunteers released colorful balloons to inaugurate the games, make overs, laughter therapy and plenty of Fun and sunlight and toxins like smoke, pollution and alcohol. occasion. Cyclothon, Painting and Debate Competition were Games. The children’s art corner was a special draw. Antioxidants stop free radicals from harming the body by part of the activity. A session on Breast & Cervical was breaking them down. conducted by Sunita Gupta for safai karamchari (females). Vitamin E is stored in fat and it fights off free radicals that attack Preventive Screening activity was happening simultaneously. the fat in the walls of your body cells. It is present in whole grains, vegetable oils, nuts and green leafy vegetables. Vitamin C , also known as ascorbic acid, may help prevent cancers of the stomach, lung and the digestive system. It is present in green vegetables, tomatoes, oranges and other citrus fruit. Beta carotene is a carotenoid which the body turns into retinol. Retinol is what helps your eyesight. It is best taken from food, and fruits, grains, carrots, yellow and orange pumpkin, spinach Omega 3 helps to protect against many diseases . It’s most and other green vegetables ar the best sources. important function is to help stop inflammation . Your body I-Discovery Event Lycopene is also a carotenoid which may help in the protection doesn’t produce this essential fatty acid and it is best sourced World No Tobacco Day 2018 Every year I-Discovery school in Gurgaon Sector 46 organizes sales of prostate, lung and breast cancer. Cooked and processed from foods like Salmon, tuna, sardines and walnuts. of drawings and paintings done by their nursery children. The World No Tobacco Day amount collected is donated to Indian Cancer Society. was held at Navy Children’s School, lashed out at me unfairly when I was only trying to help. ASCO The Art of Listening with Empathy Chanakyapuri on the But the truth is, she didn’t misunderstand me at all. She 20th April, 2018. 18 ICS Volunteers attended a session on Survivorship at the A good friend of mine lost her dad some years back. I found her understood what was happening perhaps better than I did. Schools adapted Hindi American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) at Ashoka Hotel on sitting alone on a bench outside our workplace, not moving, just When she began to share her raw emotions, I felt Sunday, 29 June. A panel discussion by leading oncologist was of staring at the horizon. She was absolutely distraught and I didn’t songs to deliver the No uncomfortable. I didn’t know what to say, so I defaulted to a great interest here the vital issues regarding survivorship were know what to say to her. It’s so easy to say the wrong thing to Tobacco message and 23 subject with which I was comfortable: MYSELF. taken up. Mrs. Renuka Prasad spoke about how ICS help Breast someone who is grieving and vulnerable. So, I started talking schools participated in Cancer patients to reintegrate into society through fittings for a about how I grew up without a father, who died when I was only 9 I may have been trying to empathize, at least on a conscious the Poster Competition. good body form; so vital to women. months old. I just wanted her to realize that she wasn’t alone, that level, but what I really did was draw focus away from her I’d been through something similar and could understand how anguish and turn the attention to me. She wanted to talk to me International Yoga Day she felt. about her father, to tell me about the kind of man he was, so I Rekha Gulabani & Inderjeet Sethi attended the International Public Lecture and Panel Discussion could fully appreciate the magnitude of her loss. Instead, I But after I related this story, my friend looked at me and Yoga Day at Palika Kendra on 21 June, 2018. Rekha Gulabani Volunteers attended a asked her to stop for a moment and listen to my story about gave a speech on cure of cancer. Public Lecture & Panel snapped, “Okay, you win. You never had a dad, and I at least my dad’s tragic death. got to spend 30 years with mine. You had it worse. I guess I Discussion on “Cancer pain From that day forward, I started to notice how often I shouldn’t be so upset that my dad just died.” is Treatable, No Need to responded to stories of loss and struggle with stories of my Live with Pain” on 22 Feb I was stunned and mortified. My immediate reaction was to own experiences. What all of these people needed was for me 2018 at Jawaharlal Audito- plead my case. “No, no, no,” I said, “that’s not what I’m saying to hear them and acknowledge what they were going through. rium, AIIMS. at all. I just meant that I know how you feel.” And she Instead, I forced them to listen to me and acknowledge me. answered, “No you don’t. You have no idea how I feel.” Sociologist Charles Derber describes this tendency to insert She walked away and I stood there helplessly, feeling awful. I oneself into a conversation as “conversational narcissism.” It’s Bliss Foundation Initiative had totally failed my friend. I had wanted to comfort her, and the desire to take over a conversation, to do most of the Bliss Foundation launched a unique initiative “Touch Feel and Do instead, I’d made her feel worse. At that point, I still felt she talking and to turn the focus of the exchange to yourself. It is Workshop” - an awareness program for Breast Cancer and misunderstood me. I thought she was in a fragile state and had often subtle and unconscious. Cervical Cancer on 28 June, 2018 at PHD House.

04 NARGIS NARGIS 05 Second HIA Meeting Tobacco Control Conference ICS Presence in the Delhi State Cancer patients and caregivers. They also take on the essential task of creating awareness about the disease by giving group talks. The Second HIA Regional Consultation—Northern Region held on Priya Parmar attended the Tobacco Control Program held from 5 Institute 28 August, 2018. All the facilitators and speakers discussed the to 10 August, 2018 at Goa. The purpose of the Conference was to ICS also provides free medical bras and prosthesis to patients ground level problems faced by Patient Living with Non Enhance Leadership Skills to effect Policy Development and Time flies quickly, and a year of a symbiotic relationship between who have undergone mastectomy, along with information on Events Communicable Diseases. The major points were then included in Implementation. the Delhi State Cancer Institute (DSCI) and the Indian Cancer special diets and exercises for prevention of lymphoedema. the advocacy Agenda—Northern Region. Society ( ICS) has been completed. As ICS Volunteers, our primary Additionally, if the dietician recommends, we offer a free job is to contribute to the emotional well-being of patients , but nutritional supplement , PediaSure , to children. this would not have been possible without the assistance and At present we are still learning how to handle the very large support of the DSCI. As of now, our ICS volunteers have volumes of patients visiting DSCI . We try to talk to as many established a very happy rapport with the entire team of doctors patients as we can, individually and in groups , and our results so and staff and they have guided us every step of the way. This far have been very encouraging. We will soon be extending our conducive atmosphere has enabled us to do our job satisfactorily. emotional support and other services to paediatric patients as DSCI is an autonomous body under the Govt of NCD Delhi State well and hope that with the success of this initiative, the fields in with a mission to impart affordable care to Cancer patients. The which ICS ventures, will eventually become all encompassing. Director, Dr RK Grover, has always aimed at innovative measures The respect and patronage received from DSCI has allowed us to to make the Hospital welcoming and comfortable. The Hospital believe that ICS has the ability to take on this challenge treats more than 1000 patients every day, and a team of successfully. ICS Picnic at Lodhi Garden Holi Celebration at Prashanti dedicated ICS volunteers provide emotional support to the - Sangita Malhotra

Sheila Nair’s Visit to ICS Delhi Thank You!! l Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd l External Affairs Spouses l Google l Cipla Foundation Association Charitable Trust l American Cancer l Garden Reach Shipbuilders l Max India Foundation Society & Engineers Limited l Lumax Charitable l Pepsi Foundation l Apollo Tyres Foudation l Sucheta Govil & In House Celebrations l l Mercer Consuting (India) Housing Development Cor- Vivek Govil Sajanthi Venu’s Visit to ICS Delhi poration Limited Private Limited l Medanta The Medicity l l Exide Life Insurance Company l Workshop on Metastatic Breast Cancer was held on Novarties Healthcare Pvt. l Fuji Film India Pvt. Ltd. Limited Mathura Project Ltd l 11th April, 2018 at Army Hospital Research & Referral. l Letz Dream Foundation l Essel Social Welfare Foun- We proudly share Celebi Delhi Cargo Terminal l l dation Frontier Biscuit with you that Workshop for Jagriti speakers was held on 8th May, Rekha Gulabani, 2018 at the ICS Office. Atul Kumar, R R l Talks are held on FM Gold on every orkshops Workshop on “Association of Adolescent and Mishra and Nikita Friday between 1.10 to 1.25 pm. W Child Care in India” by Dr. Latika and Dr. Sunita at Soni made a due ICS Office. In the last 6 months, we talked Dr Sajanthi Velu, South Asia Team Lead & diligence visit to about What is Cancer, Cancer Miss Uttara Bharath Kumar along with their Nayati Medicity, l Dissemination Workshop on 22nd May, 2018 - Survivors, Head & Neck Cancer, Childhood team from Johns Hopkins-Centre for and were able to Sharing of Project, “ALL OF ME” Phase I findings. Key Cancer, NCD & Tobacco, Breast Cancer, Communication Programs visited Indian make meaningful stakeholders from the specific workplaces and Johns Tobacco Cancer, Preventive Oncology, Colon Cancer Society office to get an overview of Hopkins representatives were invited to attend the the “All of Me” Project. local connects. This will help us to carry out screening Emotional Support : 4958 patients Cancer, Cervical Cancer and Lymphodema projects in the Mathura region workshop. ICS Volunteers and Directors also joined Child Nutrition : 35 Children WHO Visit to ICS Delhi and attended the workshop. No. of Patients Adopted : 64 Condolences Cancer Screening: 6112 persons Panel Discussion on Role Play Workshop Mammography : 270 patients Guddi Noharia, Patient Safety In May, an interactive Awareness Talks : 82 wife of Mr. Kewal Nohria sesssion between Dr. Vaid Chairman, Mrs. Jyotsna Govil participa- Indian Cancer Society ted as one of the speakers at and volunteers was the Panel discussion on conducted at Medicity where Dates to Remember volunteers clarified often Long time volunteer Patient Safety in Achieving Dr. Hilde, Team Leader Health System & asked questions by the patients. Before that a role play Annual Seminar : 23rd September and mentor Universal Health care on 11 Chandrakant Lahariya, National Professi- session was conducted with the help of Medanta Sheba Talukdar July 2018. Survivors’ Day : 9th February 2019 onal Officer, WHO visited Detection Centre psychologist, Sreekala Nair and ICS office on 7 August, 2018.

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