CAN-STOP

CAN-STOP (Cancer Support Therapy to Overcome Pain) strives to help people learn more about dealing with cancer and cope with its related problems.

Started in 1998 by Dr.Vijaya Bharathi Rangarajan, as a tribute to Dr. S. Rangarajan who established Sundaram Medical Foundation, CAN STOP is now the centre for counselling (information, advice, consolation, listening) for cancer-affected patients, their families and friends. It also organises group discussions, with various therapy sessions for patients and their families.

The organisation is working on a continuous basis with 60 children (afected by cancer) at the Department of Haematology, Institute of Child Health and Children's Hospital, Egmore, 120 women with cervical cancer from the Government Hospital of Women and Children, and with cancer patients at the Government General Hospital, Chennai.

The volunteers of CAN STOP make daily visits to the Institute of Child Health and Children's Hospital, Egmore. The children are exposed to various kinds of therapies. In educational therapy, the children are provided with educational material such as blocks, puzzles and books to help them spend their time productively during their stay at hospital. Trained volunteers are there to listen and console the families of these children.

The organisation has a separate blood bank, which obtains blood for children and women during surgery. A corpus fund has been created to provide necessary drugs on a regular basis to all the needy cancer-affected children from low socio-economic backgrounds. Tender coconut water is provided to 120 women patients, once a week, at the Women's Hospital, Egmore.

Milky Way- a nutrition project was launched to provide 60 cancer-affected children, milk mixed with Complan, plus biscuits, thrice a week. The organisation also attempts fulfilling the wishes of critically ill cancer children in the age group of 0-16 years.

Children with a good prognosis, but from low socio-economic backgrounds, are given essential drugs for a period of one year, through individual sponsors. Camps are organised, especially for the economically weaker section, regarding awareness in oral cancer, breast cancer and cervical cancer. Plans are on the anvil for a mobile unit that can be used to reach people living outside the city.

The organisation accepts donations and these are exempt from Income Tax under the 80 G of the Income Tax Act.

Address: CANSTOP,
Sundaram Medical Foundation Dr.Rangarajan Memorial Hospital,
IV Avenue, Shanthi Colony, Anna Nagar, Chennai 600 040.
Phone: 628 4256, 622 0108.

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