Welcome to CNCI
Chittaranjan Cancer Hospital (CCH) was established with the support of Dr. B.C.Roy,
an eminent physician and then the Chief Minister of West Bengal. The hospital
was formally inaugurated by Prof. Madam J.Curie in January 2, 1950 and named
after Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, as a tribute to and in the acknowledgement
of the enormous donation of his land and property for the cause. Initially this
was a Cancer -treatment Centre which gradually expanded its activities in basic
and clinical -research with the assistance from government funding
organizations. This eventually led to the founding of the Chittaranjan National
cancer Centre (CNCRC), funded by the Government of India in 1957, which was
committed to basic research on cancer. The Chittaranjan Cancer
Hospital and Chittaranjan National Cancer Research Centre functioned as
separate entities in adjacent buildings until they were merged in 1987 and
emergence of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) with the objective
of serving as a premier Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) for the Eastern Region of
the Country.
We in CNCI work as a team serving people and standing beside them in their times of need. Our institute focuses on the wellbeing of our patients as our foremost priority as we strongly believe “Together we can, together we will deal with cancer and make the world a better place to live in”.
Our Institute is served by top
doctors in the oncology department along with nurses and other medical unit
members. Our research unit is dedicated in making sustained progress against
cancer which also requires advances across the research continuum, from the
biology of cancer cells to studies of large populations.
Research in our institute can
be categorized into:
1. Anticancer Drug Development & Chemotherapy
2. Cancer Chemoprevention
3. Environmental Carcinogenesis & Toxicology
4. Epidemiology & Biostatistics
5. Experimental Haematology
6. Immunoregulation and Immunodiagnostic.
7. In-vitro Carcinogenesis & Cellular
Chemotherapy
8. Neuroendocrinology
9. Oncogene Regulation & Viral Associated
Human Cancer
10. Pathology & Cancer Screening
11. Receptor Biology & Tumour Metastasis
12. Signal Transduction & biogenic amines
13. Translational Research