Total Management of cancer- Awareness, Early Detection, Support for treatment, Guidance and Counseling, Rehabilitation, Research Studies and AdvocacyCancer Patients Aid Association is a non-profit organisation that has envisioned a nation where patients face the illness with the hope of living their lives to the fullest, providing them with the means to reclaim their identities. 50 years ago, Mr. Y. K. Sapru, Founder Chairman, CPAA recognised and developed the philosophy of the 'Total Management of Cancer' which is recognised world over today. CPAA attacks the trauma patients experience holistically-physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.
CPAA also recognised that the problem of cancer in India is more than the disease. The lack of awareness on faulty lifestyles as well as the stigma related to the disease during treatment and after led to broadening activities to include delivering lectures to raise awareness, Screening for early detection, Rehabilitation of patients during and after completing treatment, Advocacy which helped make the latest drugs affordable to all strata of society and Implementing tobacco control laws, Research both translational and on psychological issues related to cancer.
CPAA focuses on an all-round treatment, not only physical support, but also psychological care for the patient and the family, lifting them from despondency, giving them hope and assuring them that there is an entire community supporting them. Our organisation has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of people by following the holistic philosophy of Total Management of Cancer for 50 years.
To be an all-encompassing cancer help agency that works towards patient care, aid and assistance, awareness, early detection, rehabilitation and advocacy. To understand and relate with the far-reaching impact cancer has on an individual’s life. To go beyond the malignancy and treatment of cancer on the medical front and help the individual cope with the economic, social and psychological shadows the disease may cast. To effect and move government policies to ensure a fair chance of treatment for every Indian citizen. To live out completely the holistic approach to treatment of cancer which CPAA calls the ‘Total Management of Cancer’ philosophy.
CPAA works alongside the medical fraternity, focusing on education, awareness, early detection, support to treatment, guidance, counseling, rehabilitation and research. While the primary concern is to meet the needs of poor cancer patients who otherwise would not be able to benefit from the best treatments that medical science has to offer, CPAA reaches out to patients from all walks of life in every possible way.
Dr. Vithaldas Parmar Research & Medical Centre Unit No. 6, Sumer Kendra, Behind Mahindra Tower, Shivram Seth Amrutwar Road, Worli, Mumbai - 400 018
