The Department of Preventive Oncology was started in the year 2003. At the beginning the Department ran the community awareness and school health awareness programs in Assam which later extended to entire North Eastern states. In 2005 with the initiative of WHO and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Tobacco Cessation Centre at BBCI started in the Department. This was the first Tobacco cessation Centre in entire North East India. With time new community based projects were assigned to the department namely District Cancer control Program in the year 2008 under NTCP. In 2010 the department got involved in multicentre research works in the field of community based interventions for tobacco cessation. Currently the department has robust OPD, Outreach, Academic and Research arms. Preventive Oncology handles multiple research projects under Ministry of Health and Family welfare, Govt. of India, ICMR, WHO, DAE, medical research council UK, Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases etc. In 2018 the National Tobacco Quit line under Ministry of Health and Family welfare was started attached to the Department at BBCI to cater the Eight North Eastern states, Orissa and West Bengal which was a landmark for the department. There are only four such quit lines all over India. The Department is taking leads in cancer and tobacco prevention and control in the region.
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