About Us
Cancer Gyan is a non-governmental, not-for-profit trust registered under Indian Trust Act involved in providing free awareness about Cancer, facilitating Knowledge Sharing, connecting patients with survivors and helping underprivileged with financial & psychological support.
Mission & Vision
Mission
To create awareness about Cancer disease amongst the student community and to help disseminate best practices in Cancer disease management amongst Cancer patients, survivors and their families by providing a knowledge sharing platform and to provide financial & psychological support to the needy cancer patients/their families
Vision
To help fight against Cancer by creating awareness about the disease in the student community, by providing a state-of-the-art curated knowledgebase which is freely accessible for everyone and by providing financial & psychological support to the needy patients & their familiy members
Our Activities
Cancer Gyan Prachar
Create awareness & provide free education to student community about Cancer (it’s symptoms, early detection methods & best practices) & help disseminate disease related information to larger community
Cancer Sampark Setu
Based on mutual consent help patients/family members connect with cancer survivors
Cancer Gyan Bhandar
Creating an online knowledge sharing platform, Compile best practices and disease related insights from patients/survivors/families, anonymize he data & publish it on the portal Provide search facility based on cancer-type, region, age group and other parameters
Read MoreCancer Sahay
Help the poor and deserving Cancer patients/their family members by providing financial assistance, Help Cancer patients and their family members cope with Cancer by providing counseling services
Read MoreOur Core Team
Srinath Deshakulkarni
Founder – Managing Trustee
Srinath is a passionate trainer, entrepreneur, counselor & a motivational speaker. He brings more than 21 years of experience. Srinath left a lucrative profession in IT industry to take up social work. Currently he is Sr. Advisor & Mentor at Academics & Beyond & works with many schools, and NGOs in providing Career guidance & enabling student community. Read more about him in his LinkedIn profile
Swapna Nadig
Co-Founder – Trustee
Mrs. Swapna is a very versatile individual with over 15 years of experience. With a formal qualification in Montessorie method of education, Swapna has lot of passion towards education & teaching. She currently is the proprietor at Academics & Beyond. She manages CancerGyan operationally and interacts with stake-holders
We have roped in a large number of SMEs, doctors, teachers & other eminent personalities as advisors. Please write to us at info@cancergyan.org if you are interested in contributing to our cause.