from the
FOUNDER

why breast cancer hub?

Over the years, Being a Cancer research professor, I have realized many lives are lost to Breast cancer in Women, Men, or other types of cancer due to taboo, ignorance, lack of awareness leading to late detection, & inaccessibility to healthcare facilities, accurate diagnosis & treatment management. All these concerns motivated me to resign in 2017 from a rewarding career & create Breast Cancer Hub as Full-time Pro bono humanitarian service with a dream to save lives by making impactful sustainable changes working at the grassroots level by bridging the gap between the Developed & the Developing Countries.

Learn more on the inception of Breast Cancer Hub & my dream - Interviews, Please click here: Mecklenburg Times, CanvasREBEL, Women who Win, Hidden Gems section-Voyage LA Magazine, Charlotte Lately Magazine, Passion Piece; East India Story, INet NYC (International Network in New York City), Podcast - Making a Global Impact (Interview by Carrie Madrid), Podcast (interview by Sarah Ashley Neal), Goodera, TheOncoPT Podcast Interview

An incident that left a mark & drove me towards Cancer.

I was 12-year-old, one of my friends’ mom passed away. At the funeral, when I asked someone the cause of death, to my surprise, people were hesitant to mention the word cancer & hushed me up when I repeated “Breast Cancer”? I was shocked & felt – “Is this the respect we give to a mother who lost her life that we can’t discuss the disease that cost her life?”.

The pain stayed within me & over the years I realized how Cancer became a household name & death sentence because of Late detection. I wanted to go deeper & understand the etiology of cancer, discover the pathways to find a cure & treatment therapy & always urged to educate the society about the concept of early detection & preventable measures so that we can significantly reduce the death rate worldwide.

I was born in a family of Doctors and Healthcare providers relentlessly and tirelessly working towards the community. My Grandfather (Late Dr K.N Das) and Father (Late Dr Chandra Sekhar Das) served patients in Assam, North-East Part of India & my mother Rita Das served the mankind through her selfless gestures. I was motivated and followed the same path with a passion in the field of Cancer Research to find a cure and treatment modalities & eventually dedicating my purpose towards serving the community.

My dream of building Breast Cancer Hub stems from my discussions with Breast Cancer patients/advocates sharing their stories of pain and agony when mammograms failed their diagnosis due to dense breast issues even in the most developed countries in the world such as the USA. My heart sank when I saw young moms dying of Breast Cancer due to late detection.

During my travel to the developing countries and interaction with women, I observed the level of ignorance about taking care of their breast health. Despite women doing so well in every sphere of their lives, regardless of their level of education and socioeconomic status, breast cancer mortality is high in the developing world. The situation in the rural sector is grimmer and very critical. It’s the stigma of using the word “Breast”. Besides “SHYNESS”, the other major player for late detection is “IGNORANCE” – No one discusses issues with Breast since uttering the word Breast is Taboo & awkwardness. Breast cancer screening is a low priority and the knowledge of Breast Self-Examination, Clinical Breast Examination & other screening methods (Mammogram and Ultrasound) is very limited. Women would go to the oncologists usually late when tumors are huge and metastasized which becomes an incurable situation leading to a very high death rate.

Also, Breast cancer in men worldwide is increasing and most men with Breast Cancer seem to have experiences of shock and subsequent embarrassment, battling the “stigma” of having a predominately woman's disease. 

I commenced this new chapter of my life to bridge the gap between the developed & developing countries, to penetrate the untapped sectors, conduct early detection screening, cancer care-treatment & management.

We believe in “Coming together to fight ALL Cancer” for the Families & Communities Faced with Cancer through our BCH Wings-CANCER HUBS. We Save A Life, We Save A Family.

Research -  we bring the true scenarios & data by penetrating into the untapped sectors for substantial impactful scientific results, need of the hour to help the community.

Lack of global clinical data on Breast Cancer across demographics and ethnicity, especially from the developing world always bothers me. The survival frequency of Breast Cancer & other types of Cancer is very low in the developing world. I believe, this critical situation won’t be taken seriously until and unless we understand the status and frequency of Cancer collectively represented from all the cities & villages (remote) across developing countries through appropriate data collection and analysis. We can bridge the gap between the developed and developing world to uplift the research potential and bring into limelight the current situation of Cancer in the urban & rural sectors across the globe, and try to decipher the hidden elements that may eventually help in the treatment schema.

We are also working on other type of Cancers in addition to Breast Cancer.

In 2017, I decided to give up my professional career to take on a fully voluntary philanthropic mission by forming Breast Cancer Hub to take on fundamental challenges related to healthcare, sustainability goals, perform clinical research analysis & drive results and save more lives on a widespread basis across developed and developing countries by working at the grassroot level. Please come and join us to drive this transformation and support the cause. Together, we can do wonders!