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Michele Lenore Frazier Baldwin (October 6, 1966 – February 5, 2012), also known as Lady Ganga, was an American who set a world record in standup paddleboarding by paddling 700 miles (1,100 km) down the Ganges in India after being diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer in 2011.
She returned to India and started practicing at Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, Delhi as consultant gynecologist from 2001 to 2002. She serves as the Head of Gynecology at CMI Hospital, Dehradun. She has been organizing free screening and awareness camps for Breast and Cervical cancer since 2014. [3]
The foundation organizes awareness programs in rural areas focusing on oral, breast, and cervical cancers and facilities in district-level community health centers for cancer screening. [2] By July 2020, the foundation had screened over 150,000 people. [18] By 2019, the foundation supported the treatment of 25 children suffering from cancer. [18]
The Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's biggest vaccine maker, has developed the country's first cervical cancer shot that will hit the market soon, the company and the government said on ...
Cervical cancer is the 12th-most common cancer in women in the UK (around 3,100 women were diagnosed with the disease in 2011), and accounts for 1% of cancer deaths (around 920 died in 2012). [148] With a 42% reduction from 1988 to 1997, the NHS-implemented screening programme has been highly successful, screening the highest-risk age group (25 ...
Nargis Dutt Foundation had been engaged in spreading cancer awareness and knowledge, organising free screening camps in rural areas of country. [6] The foundation is also engaged in financially and holistically supporting needy cancer patients with their treatments especially in TATA Memorial Hospital and equipping rural hospitals with medical ...
Indian Cancer Society is a non-government, non-profit, national organization for awareness, detection, and providing cure and treatment for cancer patients in India.. It was established in 1951 at the initiative of Naval Tata with noted oncologist Dr. D. J. Jussawalla and as India's first voluntary, non-profit, national organization for awareness, detection, and providing cure and treatment ...
Project Pink Blue started in 2013 as a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) community development project, [4] [5] known as Project Pink [6] through which Runcie C. W. Chidebe, carried out a breast and cervical cancer awareness and screening [7] for 165 women in Kabusa community, a suburb of Abuja.