EDUCAN-HP
Every healthcare professional has the potential to make a lasting impact on the fight against cancer. Join EDUCAN-HP to promote cancer awareness, prevention, and early detection.
About EDUCAN-HP
Every healthcare professional has the potential to make a lasting impact on the fight against cancer. By joining EDUCAN-HP, you become part of a mission dedicated to promoting cancer awareness, prevention, and early detection. Your knowledge and commitment can help individuals recognize the warning signs of oral, breast, and cervical cancers, leading to earlier diagnosis, better treatment outcomes, and healthier communities.
As a member of EDUCAN-HP, you will have the opportunity to:
- ✓ Gain practical knowledge in cancer awareness and early screening.
- ✓ Learn from experienced healthcare professionals and subject experts.
- ✓ Participate in seminars, workshops, screening programs, and community outreach activities.
- ✓ Enhance your communication, leadership, and public health education skills.
- ✓ Build valuable professional experience through real-world awareness initiatives.
- ✓ Collaborate with a network of healthcare professionals committed to improving community health.
- ✓ Contribute meaningfully to society by helping spread evidence-based cancer awareness.
- ✓ Receive recognition and certificates for participating in EDUCAN-HP educational activities.
AIM
To strengthen early cancer detection and prevention by empowering healthcare professionals with practical screening skills, community engagement capabilities, and passing on the right information at the ground level. Specifically, working on Oral, Cervical & Breast Cancers.
OBJECTIVES
- Train and enhance knowledge of cancer prevention and early detection.
- Initiate cancer education early, starting from college and continuing through professional practice.
- Encourage healthy habit formation and promote positive lifestyle modifications.
- Support research and education focused on early cancer detection.
- Develop standardized protocols for accurate and effective early cancer screening.
- Strengthen leadership, communication, and patient counselling skills among healthcare professionals.
- Build a sustainable healthcare workforce to support long-term cancer screening initiatives.
- Establish structured referral pathways and systematic follow-up mechanisms for timely diagnosis and care.
- Integrate evidence-based cancer screening into routine healthcare practice.
- Promote interdisciplinary collaboration for comprehensive cancer prevention and early detection.
Join EDUCAN-HP and become a catalyst for change. Together, we can educate communities, encourage early detection, reduce the burden of cancer, and save lives—one awareness initiative at a time.
Our Leadership & Project Team
Dedicated professionals and visionaries driving our cancer awareness and education mission forward.
Our Esteemed Leader
Dr. Shakti Singh Deora
SECRETARY- ASIAN HEAD NECK CANCER FOUNDATION“The Heart of Our Foundation. The Healing Hands of Hope.”
At the Asian Head and Neck Cancer Foundation, we are fortunate to be guided by someone who embodies compassion, excellence, and vision. Dr. Shakti Singh Deora is not just our Secretary — he is the heart and soul of our mission and the unwavering strength behind every milestone we achieve.
As a dedicated Head & Neck Cancer Surgeon, Dr. Deora brings unmatched expertise, precision, and empathy to his practice. His commitment to his patients goes far beyond the operating room — he walks with them through their toughest battles, offering not just advanced surgical care, but also hope, courage, and a belief in a better tomorrow.
His leadership ensures that our foundation remains focused, future-ready, and deeply rooted in purpose. With a perfect blend of clinical brilliance and humane values, he inspires our team, empowers communities, and transforms lives every single day.
Thank you, Dr. Shakti Singh Deora, for being the driving force behind our journey, a healing touch to so many, and the true heart of our foundation.
CANVEERs — Field Outreach & Community Link
CANVEERs are trained volunteers and healthcare professionals who serve as the vital link between EDUCAN-HP and the community. They conduct structured outreach activities by visiting communities and public settings where the risk of tobacco use and cancer is comparatively higher. Their primary role is to engage individuals in meaningful conversations to understand their awareness, perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes regarding cancer, its risk factors, prevention, early detection, screening, and available treatment options.
Through these interactions, CANVEERs promote evidence-based cancer awareness, address common misconceptions, and encourage individuals to adopt healthy lifestyle practices and participate in timely screening. They also collect valuable community insights that support research and help identify gaps in awareness and access to healthcare services.
The information gathered by CANVEERs enables EDUCAN-HP to develop targeted educational programs, strengthen community-based cancer prevention initiatives, and design interventions that are responsive to local needs. By connecting research with community engagement, CANVEERs play a significant role in advancing early detection, improving public awareness, and contributing to the reduction of the cancer burden.