"You have cancer."
These terrifying words resonate in the ears of someone diagnosed with the dreaded disease. And for their family, the first thoughts are about the affordability of the treatment. In a low-resource country like India, it is one of the most catastrophic Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) today. The numbers are damning: 12.5 lakh new cases are diagnosed every year and around 28 lakh cases of cancers are prevalent at any given point of time. It also claims lives of about 6.8 lakh patients per year. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), death from cancer in India is projected to rise to 13.1 million by the year 2030.

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