Author: ICanCaRe

Innovative Cancer Care and Rehabilitation Pvt. Ltd. (ICanCaRe) is a health tech start-up working in providing innovative solutions in the field of cancer prevention, care & rehabilitation, striving to make life comfortable and easy beyond cancer for all winners and survivors. ICanCaRe is recognized as Start-up by DPIIT, Government of India, incubated at Gujarat University Start-up and Entrepreneurship Council (GUSEC), and is a lifetime member of Millennial India International Chamber of Commerce Industry & Agriculture (MIICCIA). ICanCaRe in its mission "SAVE the Youth" runs two popular campaigns #knowtobacco and #chotadaana. ICanCaRe is in the business of tobacco Cessation (QUIT TOBACCO) as a means of tobacco control through a clinically validated protocol intervention model, and capacity building for the same by Gujarat University accredited certified specialist courses.

Signature Campaign on World No Tobacco Day

Signature Campaign on World No Tobacco Day 

Ms.Juliana (3rd from left) along with Bharat Scouts & Guides from Kendriya Vidyalya 2, Colaba at Churchgate Railway Station Mumbai.
1000+ signatures is our strength and commitment that speaks volumes in this small space.
Mrs.Rashmi Rekha Mishra(3rd fromleft),ICanWinFoundation Patron and Station Superintendent of Bandra Railway Station,Mumbai with Bharat Scouts & Guides
Oficers from Indian Navy participating enthusiastically in the signature campaign.
People participating in the campaign
‘Athithi Devo Bhava’ a visitor from Australia endorsing his support
‘Nanha munha rahi hun, desh ka sipahi hun’ Youth awakened and praying for a Tobacco free society.
Enthusiasm at its peak when we were running out of space.
A police officer pledging to ‘winovertobacco’
People participating in the campaign
Common people taking pledge for a tobacco free environment.
A discussion between volunteers about the campaign.

ICanCaRe – ICanWin Foundation team conducted “SAVE the Youth – Win over Tobacco”.Signature campaign at Churchgate Railway station and Bandra Railway station, Mumbai on the eve of ‘Wolrd No Tobacco Day’. The campaign is the brainchild of Dr Pawan Gupta, Sr. Cancer Surgeon and Founder President of ICanWin Foundation, and was run under the leadership of  Mrs Rashmi Rekha Mishra from Western Railway Women Welfare Association, Mumbai. Banners appealing public to take pledge ‘not to take tobacco in any form’ and to sign in support is supported by more than 1000 signatories include officials, Police, businessmen, Boys Scouts & Guides, professionals, domestic and international tourists, students and commuters from all walks of like. The response was wonderful and is flooded with varieties of opinion,  suggestions and commitment to make this society Tobacco Free. More than 15 volunteers including Teacher leaders and Boys Scouts & Guides from Kendriya Vidyalaya 2, Colaba, and  Ms Juliana, an entrepreneur, managed the event with champion spirit and dedication for the cause.   ICanCaRe – ICanWin Foundation, which works on cause of cancer and tobacco awareness and care, plans to conduct a Nukkad Naatak program on Tobacco Awareness at Marine Drive area of Mumbai very soon. Mrs Mishra commented that this campaign shall bring change in public understanding on and attitude towards of use of tobacco and it’s ill effects on our lives and a step towards “Positive about Life” shall make a Clean, Green, Healthy and Lively India.

Cancer Winners’ are not Immortals….

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Palliative care is an essential part of cancer control

Palliative care is the active total care of the patient’s body, mind and spirit, and also involves giving support to the family. It begins when illness is diagnosed, and continues regardless of whether or not a patient receives treatment directed at the disease. Health providers must evaluate and alleviate a patient’s physical, psychological, and social distress.

Effective palliative care requires a broad multidisciplinary approach that includes the family and makes use of available community resources; it can be successfully implemented even if resources are limited. It can be provided in tertiary care facilities, in community health centers and even at a local center.

Improving the quality of life of patients and families.

Palliative care improves the quality of life of patients and families who face life-threatening illness, by providing pain and symptom relief, spiritual and psycho-social support to from diagnosis to the end of life and bereavement. Palliative care:

Cancer – 15 Warning Signs

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1. Losing weight at a rapid rate (among people not being on a diet), gasses, discomfort, digestive disorders, anorexia, recurring diarrhea, constipation – are the symptoms occurring most frequently in case of lung, stomach, kidney and large intestine cancer. If accompanied by a feeling of weakness, it can be a sign of blood loss or lack of proper elements building it.

2. Pain of unknown cause – long-lasting abdomen-ache can be the symptom of large intestine cancer, lumbalgia can be the sign of kidney cancer, pain in the chest can result from lung cancer. Bone aches can be caused by metastasis. Referred pain to the ear can be a sign of throat cancer (base of tongue, tonsils, hypo-pharynx)

3. Haemoptysis, long-lasting hoarseness (over 3 weeks), persistent cough or change of its character – can be caused by lung or larynx cancer.

4. Change in colour of moles and warts, ulceration and itching, ulceration of open wounds, burns and scalds can be the signs of skin cancer.

5. Excessive production of urine, backlog of urine, painful urinating, slow, time-consuming flow of urine, lumbago as well as backache can be the signs of prostate cancer.

6. Pain, vertigo, nausea, sight distortions (over sensitized sight, astigmatism), hearing impediment, upset balance and mental disorders can result from brain cancer.

7. Swallowing difficulties – can be a symptom of throat, larynx, oesophagus and stomach cancer.

8. Feeling of fullness in epigastrium, aches and digestive disorders – may be due to stomach cancer and other kinds of alimentary canal cancer, sometimes ovary cancer.

9. Blood in faeces, black faeces, alternating diarrhea and constipation, mucus in faeces, narrow (pencil-like) faeces – are the symptoms of alimentary canal cancer, especially of large intestine and rectum.

10. Blood in urine (without the symptoms of urinary tracts inflammation), dysuria (compulsive urination, difficulties in urination) – can accompany the urinary tracts cancer.

11. Improper bleeding from the genital tracts, pink or dark-red vaginal discharges, hypogastrium and lower limbs ache can be the signs of vagina, uterine cervix and uterus cancer.

12. Marks on skin and mucous membrane (lips, oral cavity, genitals): not healing ulceration, change in mark’s appearance, occurrence of new skin marks of some specific features (irregular distribution of pigment, vague line between the mark and healthy skin, quick growth of the marks, bleeding, dripping).

13. Breast tumour (by approximately 15% – 25% can be impalpable), ulceration, the retraction of nipple, asymmetrical nipples, change of size or the shape of a nipple, its swelling and the marks around it, enlargement of lymphatic glands in the armpit, extension of veins in the breast skin, ulceration of breast skin, shoulder swelling, flat efflorescene in case of the so called advanced inflammation nipple cancer – are often the symptoms of breast cancer.

14. Fever, tiredness, bones and joints ache, inclination to temporary anaemia and bleeding, impalpable tumour of abdominal cavity, as a result of spleen enlargement, that can be detected in gastro-bowel test.

15. Pain and pressure in the upper right part of abdomen, tiredness, anorexia and at a further stage of rhe disease a palpable tumour in the upper right part of abdomen, inclination to jaundice and bleeding can be the signs of liver cancer.

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