Thank you Savita Shekhawat for the initiative & thanks to Isha Mandloi & Ramandeep Dang for supporting the cause & help organize the seminar. It was great meeting everyone & the follow up questions & interactions about the Challenges with Breast Cancer. It was also my proudest moment when Savita Shekhawat, Breast Cancer conqueror shared her journey! She came forward & opened the chapter of her life to help mankind.... hats off to Savita! Thanks Savita for giving me your interview in Hindi, Marwari & English and also becoming Breast Cancer Hub Advocate Ambassador-Bengaluru & Jodhpur coordinator.

By Dr Lopamudra Das Roy, BCH

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Savita got diagnosed with Breast Cancer, faced the fight, emerged winner with her courage & determination. She didn’t stop herself.. She came forward to become an ADVOCATE, with a mission to spread the word and save LIVES- through her selfless voluntary service… Hats off to Savita & So blessed to know her & it’s a privilege to have Savita in our BCH family as our BCH Advocate Ambassador.

Please visit the link to learn more about Savita’s journey & also the interviews in Hindi, English, Marwari.

https://www.breastcancerhub.org/heroes-blog/savita-ttm8e-hzdln-xkygx-yw6e5-fyac4-mdcf3-7k7w-hbs-s4hnz

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Breast Awareness Workshop at DNNK Girls Higher Secondary School. Youngsters are our future to bring a change in Breast Cancer scenario in India. Thanks to Greenland Silchar Rotary Club and Mr. Ashim Bhattacharjee for organizing the session and also inviting the media which helped in mass outreach spreading the word about early detection. The topics covered were related to Breast Cancer screening, Breaking the Breast taboo, Breast Self Examination protocol discussed and handouts distributed in the local language, cancer signs & symptoms to preventable measures, inspiring stories of Women & Men Breast Cancer survivors. ~130 students were present and listened very attentively with more interactions after the session. Thanks to the Principal Mrs. Jhama, & Faculties of DNNK school, Club President Dipak Brahma, Shatakshi Bhattacharjee, Ashim Bhattacharjee along with others for your tremendous support & selfless gestures.

By, Dr Lopamudra Das Roy, BCH

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Great interactive productive session. It was so fulfilling meeting each & everyone with so much of positivity & eagerness to take the message forward. #TogetherWeSaveLives 

Immensely thankful to Ln Uma Kar and Kn Rita Chakraborty, for supporting the cause & organizing the session. My heartfelt thanks to you all. Thank you Kn Rita Chakraborty for opening your house for us! 

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Empowering young students at this age can help make a change on Breast Cancer scenario in India. Thank you Mr. Sekhar Paul Chowdhury for inviting me & sincerely grateful to the Professors Soma Shyam (Principal), Sukla Misra, Nibedita Chakraborty & each & every Faculties for supporting the cause, your great initiative & your enthusiasm to accept the protocol of Breast Self Exam. The students showed equal interest & were eager to carry the message to their families & network. Many discussed issues pertaining to their family members & followed up later with me via whatsapp. The topics covered all aspects of Breast Cancer & Preventable measures relevant to all types of Cancer along with the inspiring survivor stories of Female & Male Breast Cancer.

By, Dr Lopamudra Das Roy, BCH

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Honored to be Interviewed by Nation 1 Voice: Thank you, Mr Nanda Dulal Bhattacharyya, Zonal Head, Northeast Zone, India, for the interview in Bengali focused on early detection & signs & symptoms of Breast Cancer in women & men, Challenges with screening processes in India, the solutions we can provide. Mr Bhattacharyya has come forward for the cause & through media will take it to mass populace in Kolkata, and other East States. Thank you Nation 1 Voice, Mr. Bhattacharya and Mr. Jawed Hussain!

Interview Link: https://youtu.be/HhcoL6HqpVE

By, Dr Lopamudra Das Roy, BCH

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I focused on Breast Cancer Screening & how to motivate women & men about the importance of Early detection. Thank you Dr Anupama from Narayana Health, Bangalore for connecting to Mr Akshay Mohanty (Deputy Manager) & inviting for a session for nurses and CSR (corporate social responsibility) team. Extremely thankful to Mr. Mohanty for organizing the workshop, inviting the press & for the collaboration. It was great interacting with the nurse & their assurance to take the message forward. Extremely grateful to Mr Nanda Dulal Bhattacharyya, Zonal Head, Northeast Zone, India, Nation 1 Voice TV channel for the detailed interview in Hindi & Bengali. Mr Bhattacharyya has come forward for the cause & through media will take it to mass populace in Kolkata, and other East States. Thank you Nation 1 Voice, Mr. Bhattacharya and Mr. Jawed Hussain! Heartfelt thanks to my friend Kaushiki for opening your house for me to stay during the outreach in Kolkata. Thank you Simi for all your support.

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Young students are our future to generate Cancer Awareness! My heartfelt thanks to Dr Swarnali Nath Chowdhury, HOD, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, ICFAI University, Tripura, for inviting me & organizing two talks- for Paramedical & Basic Science students. It was great interacting with the students & faculties & so proud of them for understanding the importance of Early detection & screening processes. Each student took the Breast self exam (BSE) card & also promised to share the BSE card with their families & network. Also thanks to Mr. Prosenjit Nath Chowdhury for all his help & support. Thanks to the family of Dr. Swarnali for all the love & affection & the selfless gestures.

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It was a great workshop, survey conducted before the session showed 0% screening but after session, each woman promised to perform monthly BSE, loved meeting the very enthusiastic women, men & kids. We emphasized on tobacco issues, lifestyle, preventable measures, dense breast issues along with the survivor stories giving hope to others & convincing that early detection is a key. Manipuri speaking community,Assam..Thank you Mrs Sanalembi Devi for inviting me to your village - Golachina, Bantarapur. Mrs Sanalembi is doing great work trying to motivate the people in her village!

Thanks to Dr Sirtaz for connecting us!

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Community outreach in Silchar, Assam on Breast Cancer screening & early detection. After the session, Breast self exam cards in Bengali was distributed & accepted wholeheartedly. Thank you Ms Shielu Das for organizing a session in Silchar for a Ladies group! Sincerely appreciate your initiative & support for the cause. Thank you to all who attended & helped to organize.

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 It was my immense privilege meeting the amazing Faculties, Dr Motin Laskar, Dr. Baharul Laskar (Principal), Mrs Minara Chowdhury, Prof. Hussain, founding President- Mr Mazumdar, other Professors & the enthusiastic students. I felt so fulfilling with the immense response & positive feedback from everyone to spread the word about early detection & make it happen. The best reward was when the Founding President, Mr Mazumder made the promise of not having tobacco (zarda, supari, lime etc) anymore & asked all students & faculties to do the same after I mentioned that these products act as carcinogen. My heartfelt thanks to Mr Jahid Ahmed for connecting me via LinkedIn and then connecting to Mrs Minara Chowdhury from M.C Das College, Sonai who along with Women’s cell organized a workshop on Breast Cancer.

By, Dr Lopamudra Das Roy, BCH

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We had a constant flow of women coming forward with issues after the session, that they never spoke about before and were ignorant. From the survey, 100% women were not aware of breast self exam or early detection. In-fact recently, Dalu tea garden lost few women to Breast Cancer and after Breast screening performed on 7th August on the suspicious cases, few women were detected with lump & discharges.
I wanted to thank Ms Shatakshi Bhattacharjee for connecting me to Mr Kishore Acharjee , who helped organize the outreach. Mr. Kishore is working so hard at Dalu tea garden to provide proper health care and will now also guide these women detected with lump towards the hospital & also each woman can reach out to me through my whatsapp number if any help needed.

By, Dr Lopamudra Das Roy, BCH

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Meeting with Oncologists at Dr. B. Borooah Cancer Institute, Guwahati, Thank you Dr Amal Chandra Kataki,, Dr Srabana Bhagabati, Dr Manigreeva Krishnatreya, Dr Munlima Hazarika for your collaboration! Looking forward to our collaborative work & I am so amazed seeing the extraordinary work you are doing to generate Cancer awareness! Thank you for connecting me to the patient Navigator and Social worker - Mr. Jamil Ahmed and Ms. Gayatri Gogoi and now I can connect the patients in need to the navigator who can help the patients with next steps to get an appointment & what to expect & how to get into the Hospital system.

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Wonderful experience meeting Faculties & students and I am so excited for our research collaboration-much needed in and around Nagaon! Thank you Dr. Kausar for your passion towards serving the community & generating awareness through our research work together! I am amazed with the interest & initiatives of Dr Afifa Kausar, Assistant Professor, ADP college for organizing the workshop on “Detection & early screening of Breast Cancer “ and inviting me. We would like to thank the Principal of the College and each and every Faculty member coming forward to support the workshop & the cause of Cancer.

By, Dr Lopamudra Das Roy, BCH

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It was a very fruitful interactive event with women coming forward with questions & willing to spread the word in their own network as well as requesting for more sessions next year! The on-spot survey showed that the screening for Breast Cancer was almost ~99% not done till issues evolved. Therefore, the concept of Breast Self Exam was immensely accepted. Definitely, I requested for Mammogram (mentioned about dense breast issues with Mammogram so that each woman is aware) & ultrasound after certain age as screening method. Cannot be more thankful to Mrs Parul Dhar & respected members of Sarada Sangha for organizing the session & for their immense support in taking the message forward.

By, Dr Lopamudra Das Roy, BCH

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A big thank you to my amazing friend Areejit Phukan from New Jersey for connecting us. Great meeting Mr Nivatanu Gogoi & Mr Kangkan Tamuli, founding members of Satirtha Foundation, doing amazing work on Health Care in Guwahati. Looking forward to our collaboration where we plan to add breast cancer awareness during your camp outreaches! We have shared our Assamese & other local languages Breast Self Exam cards which will be distributed to the community during the Camps conducted by Satirtha Foundation! Thanks so much for supporting the cause! T

By, Dr Lopamudra Das Roy, BCH

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Very productive & interactive discussions after the talk with the students & faculties.  I would like to thank my friend from Chicago & Kellogg network, Ms. Inder Kaur who connected me to Mr Sarabjit Juneja who further connected to Dr Anish from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jalandhar who connected to Dr Tarun Sehgal who helped organize the talk in Jalandhar on August 3rd. Thank you Dr AL Sangal, Dr Tarun, Dr Sitakshi for coming forward to collaborate on awareness & research... cannot be more grateful for spreading the word in your network & bigger community! Thank you all for your tremendous support & kind gestures. Thank you Ms. Inder for connecting me to your mom & for all the love & affection

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During the sessions in India, in addition to Breast self exam and other vital Breast screening processes, other important aspects covered & important for each & every person to be aware of...1) Men can have Breast Cancer too, men have experiences of shock and embarrassment, battling the stigma of having a predominantly woman’s disease. We spread the word by sharing the true stories of our Male Breast Cancer Coalition brothers so that no man goes undetected 2) Mammograms can miss tumors due to issues with dense Breast. 3) BRCA mutation & need for genetic testing in families afflicted with Breast and Ovarian cancer & we shouldn't forget the men of the family to undergo the testing too.. 4) Stories of our Cancer advocates & our BCH support group are our pillars of strength & inspiration..5) Love & affection & palliative care.. 6) finally lifestyle and diet & other risk factors associated with cancer. Thank you Dr Himani Paul and Dr Debabrata Deb for inviting me & organizing the session & helping us to spread the word through your selfless gestures. It was great meeting the Faculties & students today followed by the discussions & interactions.Thanks to many faculties coming forward for collaboration in research. My heartfelt thanks to Dr. Himani & Dr. Debabrata & their loving son for immense help & affection.

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I received great positive response today from Dr Rajdeep Roy, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Silchar, Assam during our meeting today in Delhi (1st August, 2019). Sincerely appreciate your time today & supporting the cause of cancer. Thank you for mentioning that you will try to help me connect to the health ministry so that the proposal we have about early detection- Breast self exam and concepts of early screening process can reach to each and every household, trying to start from the state of Assam. 🤞things will work out. Sincerely thankful to Dr Chandra Sekhar Das for his help to connect me to Dr Roy. Thank you Mr Krishna Roy Choudhury & Mr Pulok Das for setting up the appointment.

By, Dr Lopamudra Das Roy, BCH

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