24/12/2025
Cancer has emerged as the second most significant cause of fatality in Pakistan according to experts. Our Institute working on cancer prevention for over three decades.
Unfortunately, very little effort has been made towards preventing this malaise in Pakistan. Our Institute is the brainchild of my late Dr. Khalid Mahmud, who was an oncologist in the USA and was amongst the doctors who were consulted by Hillary Clinton for revision of the USA's Health Policy during the presidency of Bill Clinton - he had also received the State Leadership award in the field of Health from the Governor of Minnesota.
The Institute has produced different pamphlets based on the American Cancer Society's pamphlets, in Urdu. The American Cancer Society had 3400 offices all over the USA, when the Chairman of the Institute visited its Headquarters in Atlanta more than a quarter of a century back. The Society had a large Research Division that had produced quite a few Nobel Laureates by then.
You must have noted the annual Pink Ribbon campaigns in the month of October. The experts say that every 8th woman in Pakistan is expected to get breast cancer at one or the other stage of her life. Yet, these campaigns fail to say much on prevention of the disease. Late Dr. Mahmud wrote a well researched book on breast cancer prevention that our Institute got translated into Urdu in cooperation with the Urdu Science Board some years back. The list of scientific references spread over 33 pages have, however, been retained in English for the benefit of doctors.
We have organized seminars and workshops on cancer prevention at Kinnaird College for Women University, Lahore College for Women University, Minhaj University, Islamia College for Women Cooper Road and Lahore Gymkhana etc. in collaboration with Surgical Oncology Society of Pakistan.
Our Institute has also set up this page 'Shehzada Begum Cancer Prevention Institute'. It has a few hundred followers but in a population of 260 million it's insignificant.
If all the followers of our page can bring the page to the notice of all their contacts, the utility of our page would be enhanced manifold.