1) The pink initiative

The Pink Initiative is a Mumbai based NGO working towards generating awareness about breast cancer in the lay man. Their Mission is just one - and a very simple one too - They want women to be cured of breast cancer, God forbid, if they do develop it.

The initiative targets girls and women between the ages of 15 and 50 in and around Mumbai. From organising workshops to educate them about the early detection of breast cancer to organising online support forums for patients, the NGO’s primary aim is to educate people about the seriousness of early detection and diagnosis.

In addition to this, the Pink Initiative also puts up posters about breast cancer across some of the prime localities in the city such as educational institutions, commercial complexes and malls.

3) Swastava Cancer care

Swastava emerged out of the pain of a group of professionals who are directly or indirectly hit by Cancer. For instance, Dr. Chaturvedi Founder secretary lost his wife to ovarian cancer and himself a survivor of colon cancer, President lost his wife, vice president his sister & Father, Treasurer his son to blood cancer and so on. Thus, this society was formed to see that such pain is avoided in society through intensive awareness and early cancer detection through screening for cervical, Oral & Breast Cancers. Swastava is a registered society under society act and is having tax exemption under 12A and 80G under IT act.

Please visit their website : www.swastavacancercare.in

In their 03 years of existence, Swastava has conducted awareness and screening camps across the state of Telangana and has so far already benefited more than 15,000 people. This has been made possible through strategic partnerships and financial support from individual and corporate donors.

contact them: +91 9849398879, info@swastavacancercare.in

4) Maina Foundation

Their mission: To reduce the burden of breast cancer by providing education, early detection, and treatment to women

Maina Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing critical funding for increasing breast cancer awareness and promoting early detection to women in need of financial assistance. Through strategic collaborations and a grassroots approach, our foundation aims to empower women through health education and innovative medical care for breast cancer.

contact them: 860-434-3985 / Fax 860-434-8249, info@mainafoundation.org

5) Karunashraya

First of its kind, Karunashraya is one of the best cancer care NGOs in India. It provides free professional palliative care to 17,500 patients with advanced-stage cancer, who are beyond cure. The treatment includes psychological and social support, rehabilitation therapies, counseling, and practical and financial advice. It helps patients to live without pain and with peace till their journey ends. Your donation to this cancer care NGO can add life to their last days.

Their mission: To provide compassionate palliative care for people with a life-limiting illness, and for those important to them, through quality medical, emotional, spiritual and social support.

Contact them: Phone: +91 80 4268 5666, 2847 6133, 2847 6509, E-mail: info@karunashraya.org

6) Grace Cancer Foundation

Grace Cancer Foundation was born in 2013 with a vision to reach out to people who cannot afford treatment and to spread awareness. It organizes cancer awareness programs in rural areas and conducts free tests to suggest the necessary precautions to the people suffering from cancer. It has been honored with the Guinness Book of World record for conducting cancer tests for 1,69,668 people in one day at Guntur in Andhra Pradesh.

Your donation will help them continue the kind service they are providing to the people in need.

Contact them: Phone No: 040 - 42704920, Email: info@gracecancerfoundation.org

7) Sanjeevani Life Beyond Cancer

Global Cancer Concern India works for poor cancer patients since the last 17 years. GCCI spreads awareness about cancer among the masses, through free cancer detection/screening camps. It also runs free mobile palliative home care services for the terminally ill poor patients. Besides, it also takes care of the patient’s family by providing vocational training to one of their family members or by helping with the school fees of their patients’ kids under the Child Sponsorship Program.

Support this cancer care NGO and help a poor patient in need.

Contact them: Tel No : +91 8691000801, Email : info@sanjeevani-lifebeyondcancer.com, Website : www.sanjeevani-lifebeyondcancer.com

8) Can Protect Foundation

“Can Protect Foundation”, is a society registered in India, working towards women's health, Breast and Cervical Cancer awareness and prevention by organising free breast and cervical cancer awareness and prevention camps. Our goal is to provide free prevention, training, and awareness facilities to prevent breast and cervical cancer, preventing thousands of deaths each year.

Other than free medical checkup and cancer prevention camps we also aim to teach the women about cancer symptoms and how to conduct a potentially life-saving breast self-exam. Without us, these women's would have to travel miles to the nearest facility, we provide free checkup camps something closer to their home.

Can Protect Foundation also aims at setting up a national plan dedicated to preventive practices for detecting breast and cervical cancer at an early stage to achieve very high cure rates while considerably reducing the aggressiveness of the treatments applied.

The organization has so far done a checkup of more than 20,000 women in India.

Many famous doctors are associated with the Can Protect Foundation, the organisation's patron Dr. Mahesh Kuriyal is a renowned neurosurgeon who actively participates in all the activities. Currently, the foundation is backed by many volunteers.

Contact them: Phone: 9412054492, Email: info@canprotectfoundation.com

9) Cope With Care

Contact them: SUPPORT@COPEWITHCANCER.ORG

10) Cope With Care

Womens Cancer Initiative – Tata Memorial Hospital (WCl-TMH) is a non profit NGO led by, Dir. Tata Memorial Center. Dr. R.A. Badwe (President), Mrs. Devieka Bhojwani (Vice-President) and Dr. Sudeep Gupta (General Secretary) along with other cancer physicians & surgeons and volunteers.

The Initiative's core activity comprises material support of socially and economically disadvantaged women who are diagnosed to have breast and gynecological cancers. The Initiative has supported hundreds of such women to complete their prescribed treatment with chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, radiation therapy, surgery and rehabilitation therapy. The Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) is a grant-in-aid Institution of the Government of India that is run under the supervision of the Department of Atomic Energy. It comprises of the Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) and the Advanced Centre for Training Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC). The TMC has a 70 year long and proud history of service, education and research in the field of cancer.

Approximately 25000 new cancer patients are registered in TMH every year, the majority belonging to the underprivileged sections of the society. The Women's Cancer Initiative-Tata Memorial Hospital (WCI-TMH) was started in 2003 as a partnership between Devieka Bhojwani (herself a breast cancer survivor and a prominent social activist of Mumbai) and Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India.

Contact them: Tel: +91-22-2417 7000 Ext. 7201 Email : wcitmh@gmail.com