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Programme R12
Cancer Risk Prediction & Screening Programme Design
Who should be screened, at what age, and how often?
Coming soon
The problem
India's highest-burden cancers, oral, cervical, breast, are among the most detectable. The gap between detectable and detected is enormous.
Screening designs imported from high-income settings assume a workforce and a follow-up infrastructure that does not exist here. Applied unchanged, they waste resources and generate findings nobody follows up.
The questions
- Can risk-prediction models built on Indian data identify who to screen, at what age and how often?
- What is the optimal design of a screening programme in a resource-constrained, high-burden setting?
- What is the actual yield of community camps, and how can it be raised?
What we are contributing
We run community screening camps as an operational service, which means every camp is also a data collection point with a known denominator, how many were screened, how many were positive, how many actually reached a diagnosis.
That last number is the one almost nobody measures, and it is the number that decides whether a screening programme is worth running at all.
Improving camp yield improves our own detection rate. The research and the service point in the same direction.
How the work is done
- Risk model development and external validation
- Population and micro-simulation modelling
- Screening interval optimisation
- Yield and cost analysis
- Equity and access modelling
What it runs on
- Our own camp and screening programmes
- Public health data
- Published cohorts
What it produces
- Validated Indian risk models
- Screening programme designs
- Camp yield evidence
- Publications and policy submissions
Why it is not just science
How this changes care here
- Improves the yield of every camp we run
- Shapes who we invite to screening and how often
- The direct route into government and institutional tenders
Funding fit
Public tenders and health-mission programmes; national biomedical funders; philanthropic global-health funders.
What we are looking for
- Public health and policy collaborators
- Community partners for camp delivery
- Funding for screening cohort follow-up
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Publications, funding and results
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