In 2016, Shilpa Datla lost her mother to cancer due to medical negligence. Instead of staying quiet, she moved the court against the doctor. She shares five ways to fight a legal battle in medical negligence cases.
After losing his housemaid to cervical cancer and realising the gap in the early detection, adoption, and access to available tests, Anirban Palit developed a device called Cervicheck that helps detect cervical cancer at home.
The Serum Institute of India (SII) was granted market authorisation by DCGI to manufacture Cervavac. This is India’s qHPV vaccine against cervical cancer.
By 2040, more than 1 million women in India run at a risk of succumbing to uterine cancer. This initiative, Ganga Godavari Cancer Screening Program, is trying to help the country steer clear of that fate.
Dr. Indraneel Mittra, a surgeon with the Tata Memorial Hospital, led a groundbreaking 20-year research into the early detection of breast and cervical cancer in the 1990s.