The first step to managing cancer: understanding it

The news of cancer can be traumatic for patients as well as their families. Which is why, whether you are at risk of the disease or actually facing it, we are here to tell you that there is still hope to get better.

Healing begins with listening to what your body needs and making essential changes in your lifestyle. And that’s where CARER can help you get it right – with comprehensive methods, expert guidance and a whole lot of care.

The first step to managing cancer: understanding it

The news of cancer can be traumatic for patients as well as their families, however taking the right measures to manage cancer effectively is key.
Healing begins with listening to what your body needs and making essential changes in your diet and lifestyle. And that’s where CARER can help you get it right – with expert and personalised guidance on nutrition and as well as essential lifestyle changes that will help improve the quality of care and recovery outcomes.

Our journey

In 2018, CARER started as an integrative platform to provide all the resources one might need to manage cancer effectively. Along the way, we came to realise the urgent need for personalised cancer care that is delivered with a human touch.

By 2019, CARER grew to offer its own team of highly skilled cancer nutritionists, yoga practitioners, physiotherapists and mental health counsellors. With their combined expertise and experience, the platform evolved into a structured, scientifically validated program widely supported by oncologists and medical institutions.

Today, CARER is a personalised digital onco-health platform that provides cancer patients with customised nutrition and integrative programs developed by trained oncology experts, adhering to the best clinical practices in the field of oncology. These programs help manage the side effects of cancer, improve response to treatment, adherence, survival, quality of life and reduce healthcare costs. This has allowed us to work closely with cancer groups, oncologists, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies as well.

We are India’s only Personalised Cancer Nutrition and Integrative Oncology Care Company

Our therapies and programs are built from proven studies and real world data that have shown substantial improvements in a patient’s recovery.

CARER’s Nutrition and Integrative Programs for Cancer

“It’s about caring for the person, not the disease.”

Samara Mahindra
Founder & CEO-CARER

OUR PILLARS OF INTEGRATIVE CARE

Conventional treatment methods that are intended to eliminate cancer cells often take away the good with the bad. With proof that cancer is predominantly a lifestyle-related condition, CARER’s cancer nutrition and integrative therapies are aimed at resolving the root cause of the disease through three key areas:

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Clinical Nutrition | What you eat affects how well you recover

Food is medicine, but the wrong food can impede recovery. CARER’s programs provide you with a customised diet plan and access to a personal Onco Clinical Nutritionist who manages all your nutritional deficiencies, weight and other nutrition concerns to expedite recovery.

Pillars Of Integrative Cancer Therapy @ CARER – Nutrition, Customised Diet, Food

Pillars Of Integrative Cancer Therapy @ CARER – Movement, Yoga, Meditation, Rehab

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Movement & Meditation |
When in doubt, keep moving

CARER’s Movement & Meditation therapy uses Yogasanas, breath work and meditation techniques tailored to cancer patients in order to manage pain and strengthen the body and mind. Along with physiotherapy for specific physical conditions.

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Movement & Meditation |
When in doubt, keep moving

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Mental Well-being | Change your mind, change your life

The mind plays an essential role in recovery and healing. Cancer is not only a physical illness but one which affects our psychological state of being. CARER’s Mental Well-Being therapy shows you exactly what you can do to heal mentally.

Pillars Of Integrative Cancer Therapy @ CARER – Mental Health Counseling, Psychiatry, Stress Management, Depression

Backed by Oncologists, Patients and of course, Science

The CARER programs you see today have been tested and proven to work across 43 cancer types, and integrates outcomes and learnings from 500+ patients.

CARER adapts evidence-based complementary integrative cancer therapies practiced by the world’s leading cancer hospitals like Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Care and MD Anderson..

Here’s a look at how our therapies have achieved significant positive outcomes for patients:

Reducing Cancer Side Effects Successfully with CARER’s therapies

IMPACT OF CARER’S THERAPY ON REDUCING SIDE EFFECTS

See Our Programs

MEET TEAM CARER

Samara Mahindra
Founder & CEO – CARER

Certified Cancer Exercise Specialist and Breast Cancer Recovery Trainer – Cancer Exercise Training Institute, Portland

Certified Holistic Health Coach – Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN)

Plant-based Nutrition Specialist – Cornell University and T. Colin Campbell Foundation

Ameera Shah
Mentor

Managing Director,
Metropolis Healthcare

Pirojshaw Sarkari
Mentor

CEO
Mahindra Healthcare

MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Rakesh Jalali
Medical Advisor

Director of South East Asia’s First Proton Therapy Centre (SEFPTC) Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai

Dr. Vishal Rao
Head and Neck Onco-Surgeon
Medical Advisor

Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai,

Pittsburgh School of Medicine
World Health Organisation- Bloomberg

Dr. Gary Deng
Medical Advisor

Director, Integrative Medicine Service

Attending Physician, Clinical Member

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Professor of Clinical Medicine – Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University

Dr. Nanda Rajaneesh
Breast Cancer and Colon Cancer Surgeon
Medical Advisor

Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai

Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Please refer to the program tab to understand our programs in detail.

This depends on what you opt for. The Personalised Cancer Nutrition provides access to a customised diet plan and personal session with an Onco Clinical Nutritionist. Our Personalised Cancer Nutrition and Integrative Recovery Program lasts for a minimum period of one month. Longer duration programs can also be selected.

This program is created for all cancer patients who are going through treatment and post-treatment. Patients and caretakers who seek additional cancer therapy and are looking for natural alternatives such as Ayurvedic treatment will find this program to be a more viable option that is holistic, structured and backed by scientific evidence.

Yes. We work with reputed doctors and hospitals in the country.

We collect validated QLQC-30 and site specific assessments from all our patients at the beginning and end of every month. We then create a Patient Progress Report, which is shared with the patient, caregiver and doctor (if required).

About Integrative Therapies

Integrative therapies are when food, body and mind is incorporated into the treatment regimen. The focus is not solely on conventional methods of diagnosis and treatment, but also using lifestyle modalities (backed by science) that help substantially in the outcome of the patient.

Yes and CARER is one of the first companies in India to provide integrative programs in this way. CARER’s programs adapt evidence-based complementary therapies from leading cancer hospitals like Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Care and MD Anderson. Institutions that perhaps offer the best cancer treatment in the world.

Data and research has proven the impact of nutritional intervention for cancer. CARER has proven studies with managing nutritional deficiencies of patients and their improvement in response to treatment, immunity and overall recovery.

Yes, while we don’t guarantee a 100% recovery, it has worked on a myriad of patients in various capacities.

About Prevention

No, we don’t guarantee that this program will keep cancer away forever, but we do work towards guiding you in changing your lifestyle in order to bring your risks down.

No.