This is a first-of-its-kind attempt to execute 4 different projects in 4 different states of the northeast which is developed, coordinated, monitored by CFI. This project aims at promoting cancer prevention initiative in Northeast Indian states with a view to initiate community-based breast cancer programmes in 4 states – Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura. This idea evolved from a workshop organised by Cancer Foundation of India and sponsored by DBT at Kolkata with the idea of CFI creating this unique network and executing the project with Co-PIs drawn from the main government Hospital in respective states.

Breast cancer is one of the major cancers among women in the Northeast therefore three projects will be on community advocacy and one is developing a breast clinic in the hospital. It is expected that such an exercise will translate into down – staging breast cancer at the time of clinical presentation.