Punjab has started to see a rise in cancer cases.

University of Wisconsin – Madison, Christian Medical College team up for a two-month project on cancer awareness

The University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA and the Christian Medical College have developed a collaboration designing a two-month project examining the effectiveness of direct education programs on cancer awareness and prevention in university students and school children in Punjab, India. 

Kevin King a student from the University of Wisconsin, has come to the Christian Medical College along with his mentor Dr. Gurwattan Singh Miranpuri, an alumni of Punjab Agricultural University, to work with Dr. Neeta Kang at the Betty Cowan Research and Innovation Center on spreading cancer awareness in Punjab.  Working with a team of CMC medical doctors, the group will be delivering direct educational health sessions designed to increase cancer awareness in university students in Ludhiana and school children in a rural village of Bathinda district.

Once known as the breadbasket of India, Punjab has started to see a rise in cancer cases.  The fundamental level of cancer knowledge of the population is as important in controlling cancer as new methodologies to prevention, early diagnosis and treatment, and screening tools.

This is the first attempt at direct education on cancer awareness for children with the hopes that they will return to their families to spread the information learned during the sessions.