Regional Cancer Centres (RCCs) are cancer care hospitals and research institutes operating in India under the joint control and funding of the Government of India and the respective state governments. The name 'regional' because each of these institutions cater to a designated region, usually a number of districts in the country. There are presently 62 such centres spanning all the states and union territories of India. This system works under the National Cancer Control Programme which started in 1975 under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (India).Government of India. 'National Cancer Control Programme'. The scheme originally started with 5 RCCs for 5 designated regions of the nation. Later this number was increased in steps. The Tata Memorial Centre at Mumbai is the oldest and the most comprehensive amongst these centres. Similar to these are the 72 NCI-designated Cancer Centers in the US.

List of Regional Cancer Centres Regional Cancer Centres, presently approved and funded by the central government are: + Regional Cancer Centre City State Acharya Harihar Post Graduate Institute of Cancer Cuttack Odisha Acharya Tulsi Regional Cancer Trust & Research Institute Bikaner Rajasthan ACTREC New Mumbai Maharashtra All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi Delhi Anna Memorial Cancer Research Institute Kancheepuram Tamil Nadu All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneshwar Odisha Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Institute Kochi Kerala Army Medical Corps of Indian Army New Delhi Delhi Arunachal State Hospital Naharlagun Arunachal Pradesh Aster Medcity Kochi Kerala Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Institute & Research Centre Hyderabad Telangana Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre Silchar Assam Cancer Hospital & Research Centre Gwalior Madhya Pradesh Cancer Institute (WIA) Chennai Tamil Nadu Cancer Research and Relief Trust Chennai Tamil Nadu Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute Kolkata West Bengal Christian Medical College Vellore Tamil Nadu Civil Hospital - Agartala Agartala Tripura Delhi State Cancer Institutes New Delhi Delhi Dr. B Borooah Cancer Institute Guwahati Assam G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital Coimbatore Tamil Nadu GBH American Hospital Udaipur Rajasthan Government Medical College - Jammu Jammu Jammu Government Medical College - Nagpur Nagpur Maharashtra Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute Ahmedabad Gujarat HealthCare Global Enterprises- Bangalore Bangalore Karnataka Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust Dehradun Uttarakhand Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital & Research Centre (TMC) Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital (TMC) Sangrur Punjab Indian Rotary Cancer Institute (AIIMS) New Delhi Delhi Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences Patna Bihar Indira Gandhi Medical College - RCC Shimla Himachal Pradesh Institute of Cytology & Preventive Oncology Noida Uttar Pradesh Jehangir Hospital - Jehangir Clinical Development Centre Pune Maharashtra Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital Allahabad Uttar Pradesh Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology Bengaluru Karnataka Kolhapur Cancer Center Kolhapur Maharashtra M P Birla Hospital, Priyamvada Birla Cancer Research Institute Satna Madhya Pradesh M S Patel Cancer Centre (Charutar Aroghya Mandal) Anand Gujarat Madras Cancer Care Foundation Chennai Tamil Nadu Majumdar Shaw Cancer Centre Bangalore Karnataka Malabar Cancer Centre Kannur Kerala Max Healthcare Inst. Ltd. New Delhi Delhi Mizoram State Cancer Institute, Aizawl Aizwal Mizoram MNJ Institute of Oncology Hyderabad Telangana Naga Hospital Authority, Kohima (NHAK) Kohima Nagaland Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences Hyderabad Telangana Oncology Padhar Hospital Betul Madhya Pradesh Pondicherry cancer Care Society JIPMER Puducherry Puducherry Pt. B.D. Sharma PG Inst of Med Sci Rohtak Haryana R S T Cancer Hospital & Research Centre Nagpur Maharashtra R&R Hospital (Armed Forces) New Delhi Delhi Regional Cancer Centre Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Regional Institute of Medical Sciences Imphal Manipur Sanchetee hospital Jodhpur Rajasthan Sanjay Gandhi PGI of Medical Sciences Lucknow Uttar Pradesh Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences Srinagar Jammu & Kashmir SMS Medical College Jaipur Rajasthan St. John's NAMS Bangalore Karnataka State Cancer Society of Meghalaya Shillong Meghalaya Tata Medical Centre Kolkata West Bengal

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