This is a first-of-its-kind attempt to execute 4 different projects in 4 different states of the northeast which is developed, coordinated, monitored by CFI. This project aims at promoting cancer prevention initiative in Northeast Indian states with a view to initiate community-based breast cancer programmes in 4 states - Mizoram, Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura. This idea evolved from a workshop organised by Cancer Foundation of India and sponsored by DBT at Kolkata with the idea of CFI creating this unique network and executing the project with Co-PIs drawn from the main government Hospital in respective states. 

Breast cancer is one of the major cancers among women in the Northeast therefore three projects will be on community advocacy and one is developing a breast clinic in the hospital. It is expected that such an exercise will translate into down - staging breast cancer at the time of clinical presentation.

The project was aimed at urban young women (18-25 yrs) from higher socio-economic group in the metropolis Kolkata since They are most likely to be at a higher risk of developing breast cancer. The project envisaged educating College and University - going (graduate & post graduate) adult women on Breast Self Examination (BSE) and other the early symptoms of breast cancer. This would  allow them to report changes in the breast for appropriate intervention at an early stage of disease.

Such an exercise is expected to translate into down - staging breast cancer at the time of clinical presentation.

CFI had the honour of being chosen as country coordinating agency for India to conduct the pre-field test of the Comprehensive Cervical Cancer Control Guide to Essential Practice (C4-GEP) in January 2005. Three meetings were organized at Delhi-Gurgaon, Bangalore and Kolkata where nearly 40 eminent experts, health providers and policy makers in cervical cancer from all over the country participated and provided their inputs to make it an invaluable guide for every one working in the control of cervical cancer. All the meetings were also attended by a distinguished representative of WHO.

The Directory of On-Going Research in Cancer Prevention in South Asia is to provide an electronic source of information on the on-going studies on human cancer prevention in the region. The rationale of creating a Directory of this kind is the need to inform other investigators working in the field about the work that is going on in the countries of this region before it has been published.

An exhibition of photographs of more than 25 eminent photographers, from all over India, was held in Kolkata, India on the occasion of the Third Anniversary of CFI on the theme ‘Lifestyle and Risk of Cancer' from 7-11 November 2005. The exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts was inaugurated by Sri Gopal Krishna Gandhi, Hon'ble Governor of West Bengal. This was the first time in India that such an exhibition was organized to make people aware about the lifestyle predisposition to various cancers. Some of the eminent photographers who contributed their work were Raghu Rai, Satyaki Ghosh, Nitin Rai, Fawzan Hussain, Dilip Banerjee, Bikas Das etc.