Welcome to the web site of the Indore Cancer Foundation Charitable Trust.

The Foundation was set up in December 1988. The event culminating in the formation of the Indore Cancer Foundation (ICF) dates back to 1987, when Dr. Digpal Dharkar was a young cancer surgeon on fellowships in head and neck surgical oncology in France, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK and in the US under the world-renowned Dr. Jatin P. Shah of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA. Dr. Dharkar's decision to train under the best in the world and then come back to India to do something, received direction when Dr. Shah said, “Identify the needs of your region, plan for the future and exploit the tremendous potential for research in India's most common cancers, the head and neck cancers”