My Cancer Awareness Activities

My Roles and Goals

As a Technical Director and expert in preclinical pharmacology and trial design, I currently work at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and spearheading preclinical projects to help drug candidates move towards phase1 trials.

After earning my Ph.D. from India, I completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the NCI-NIH (Bethesda-MD), where I focused on the tumor microenvironment, cancer biology, and genetics and received a Fellows Award for Research Excellence. I quickly rose from postdoctoral scientist to Assistant Professor at the Georgia Cancer Center, Augusta- GA. I was selected by the Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce as #1 in the Top 10 in 10 Young Professionals to Watch and then by Georgia Trend Magazine's 2017 40 Under 40 – the Best and the Brightest in Georgia.

As a cancer scientist, I have seen tumors grow and the whole process of metastasis in preclinical, experimental studies. I firmly believe that cancer is the most avoidable disease but needs crucial education and community awareness.

I often come across the situation when my friends, their family members, or citizens suffer due to cancer. There is enormous information that science and ancient culture have discovered and need to be disseminated to raise awareness in the community.

When I imagined myself in health education, my responsibility as an individual has changed over the years, and my role has expanded for a more significant cause in the community. I recently started the "AwareOnc" social initiative, aiming to increase cancer awareness among the younger generation and health behavior change in families. I am passionate about healthy habits and believe that educating children and young adults are the only long-term solution to prevent most lifestyle-related diseases such as lung cancer. My recent certification from Yale University encourages me to provide you all the possible ways for the "Health Behavior Change" for better health.?

The Healthy Podcast: Cancer Awareness and Prevention With Dr. B. R. Achyut, PhD.

https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/cancer-awareness-and-prevention-with-dr-b-r-achyut-phd/id1511576357?i=1000514411979

My Latest Certifications

1.?????Cancer Prevention: University of Virginia- 2020-No Expiration Date

2.?????Healthy Practices: Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Community and Family Participation: University of Colorado-2020:?Issued Aug 2020-No Expiration Date

3.?????Health Behavior Change: From Evidence to Action: Yale University-2020: Issued Jul 2020-No Expiration Date

4.?????Kauffman Foundation FastTrac Tech Venture Program: ?Emory University-2019: Issued May 2019-No Expiration Date

5.?????Strategic Communication in the Workplace: Emory University-2019: -No Expiration Date

6.?????Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials (Johns Hopkins University)

7.?? Selling into Industries: Healthcare (LinkedIn Learning)

8.?????Future Healthcare Payment Models (Northeastern Univ.-School of Business)

As a cancer awareness ambassador, I always educate individuals about cancer as the most preventable disease by adapting to a clean environment and changing health behaviors. Here is all the scientific, physiological, and wellness information that every healthy individual and cancer survivor should know as a part of cancer awareness. Citizens are encouraged to learn all the possible ways they can face or inhibit cancer.

Example: Lung Cancer

Since the lung mediates O2-CO2 exchange gaseous purification, the lung should be considered a master organ. The quality of inhalations, whether primary or secondhand smoke, Radon gas, day-to-day air pollution, or accidental exposures to carcinogens, determines lung health, lung function, and lung cancer susceptibility. Also, I encourage individuals to recognize lung cancer symptoms that only they can feel as discomfort. Breathing exercises have tremendous healing if practice routinely as physical activity. For lung function maintenance, whether for a healthy individual, younger or older, or cancer survivor, I encourage individuals to follow breathing exercises as a yoga therapy, evidenced by the clinical trials. Clinical studies have found yoga as a complementary therapy that has healed several citizens and has improved the quality of life. ?Breathing exercises and yoga improve immune function, detoxify the body, and combat stress and anxiety. Yoga is also instrumental in reducing treatment side effects, such as decreasing fatigue, stress, and constipation. Yoga-based exercises keep oxygen flowing and helping in managing the side effects of cancer treatments. Other forms of moderate to low physical activities with breathing involvement can elevate mood, decrease stress and depression, increase the endorphins, and improve the sleeping pattern.

?We may need more cancer awareness ambassadors due to the increasing incidence and burden, especially for the next generation. At the same time, individuals facing cancer should be educated about the developments in immune therapies and successes.

My Regional Cancer Awareness Activities

Nextdoor (My profile): I have been utilizing the "Nextdoor" social medium to connect with individuals around my city of Suwanee in Georgia state. I believe health needs local focus before translating the benefits to the global community. Here are my group administrator and moderator activities on Nextdoor.

a.?Health Awareness in Family & Schools

I started this Nextdoor group in 2020. We have a total of 82 members in this group. My role is to routinely post health messages to educate about wellness, cancer risk factors, healthy habit & health behavior changes.

b. ?Cancer Warriors & Survivors

I started this Nextdoor group in 2020. We have a total of 22 cancer survivors, including 2 lung cancer adenocarcinomas. My role is to routinely post health messages to educate about wellness, risk modifying factors, healthy habits & health behavior changes for cancer survivors.

I love to connect with cancer survivors and always guided several individuals in all my capacities. I asked them to adopt a Vegetarian, Mediterranean,?or Vegan diet, exercise, meditation & yoga, which are the proven and evidence-based healing determinants. I explain to them why cancer survivors are at a greater risk for subsequent malignancies.

c. Suwanee Avengers and Stallion Cricket Club

We have a total of 23 members who participate every Saturday morning in fun physical activity via an English Sport called "Cricket." Along with my group members, I believe that physical activity can benefit overall health, including lung capacity & function.

Reference: Cancer Survivors at Greater Risk for Subsequent Malignancies | MedPage Today

I am always available during the weekend to catch up with the individuals who require any help and guiding them to the right person in the medical community. For example, one last month, I came across one lung cancer patient and another gastric cancer patient. I guided them to the specialists in the Winship Cancer Institute at Georgia.

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Global Cancer Awareness Activities

This section will focus on global cancer awareness activities through my website, YouTube channel, Blogs, and presentations.

1.?????Cancer Awareness Website (AwareOnc)

Mission: Cancer awareness is the most powerful approach to control cancer incidences, especially the most preventable cancers (Lung, Breast, Colorectal, & Cervical). AwareOnc is raising cancer awareness in Georgia, the United States of America, and Worldwide.

?Goal: To spread "Cancer Awareness Among Younger Generation." I firmly believe that cancer education is critical in changing lifestyles from an early age. Children need knowledge about cancer risk factors and preventive factors right now!

2.?????YouTube Channel (Aware Onc): The channel was started last year. We have a total of 31 subscribers.

? Example: Tobacco Use and the Younger Generation

3.?????Blogs Helping Lung Cancer Patients: Here is a list of few blogs.

?a.???????????????THE COMPLETE ROADMAP OF FUTURE CANCER-CURE STRATEGIES

?b.???????????????IMPROVING COMMUNITY OUTREACH FOR TIMELY CANCER SCREENING

?c.???????????????YOGA AND LUNG HEALTH: A SCIENTIFIC WAY TO DEAL WITH CORONAVIRUS

?d.???????????????EMPOWERING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGES

?e.???????????????PANDEMIC, MENTAL HEALTH, INFLAMMATION, AND CANCER CONNECTIONS

?f.???????????????5 WAYS YOU MAY BE HELPING CANCER CELLS TO GROW IN THE HOLIDAY SEASON

?g.???????????????HOW YOGA IS BOOSTING LYMPHATIC AND IMMUNE SYSTEMS?

?h.??????????????DECODING HEALTH SOLUTIONS

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4.?????Recent Online International talks:

?Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Screening: 2020

a.?????Presented in a group of medical professionals, cancer awareness volunteers, and cancer scientists for a non-profit organization-Swastawa Cancer Care, Hyderabad, India

?b.?????Presented in an academic setting for the Faculty Development Program- Department of Biotechnology, G B Pant Institute of Engineering and Technology, Uttarakhand, India

5.?????Cancer Awareness through Book Publication: I edited a book chapter, "Yoga and Cancer," in a recently published book by Dr/ Sudhanva Char, Yoga Vade Mecum: Health Outcomes of Yoga Intervention.

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