# ICMR-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research

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## TL;DR

ICMR's cancer prevention institute near Delhi, focused on the cancers India can prevent: cervical cancer through HPV screening and vaccination, and oral cancer through tobacco control.

## Summary

The institute began as the Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology and was renamed the National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research; it sits in Noida on the edge of Delhi and, in ICMR's words, conducts basic, clinical and applied research on the common cancers prevalent in India. Its work centres on cervical cancer screening (cytology and HPV testing), HPV vaccination studies, oral cancer and smokeless tobacco, including a WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control knowledge hub on smokeless tobacco, and training of health workers for the national screening programme for oral, breast and cervical cancer.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Also known as: NICPR; Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology; ICPO
- City: Noida, IN
- Type: research-institute
- Website: https://www.icmr.gov.in

## Sources

- ICMR institutes: https://www.icmr.gov.in

## Connected records

- cancers: [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/), [Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/)
- fronts: [Early Detection & Screening](https://onco.cc/fronts/early-detection/), [Prevention & Risk](https://onco.cc/fronts/prevention/)
- technologies: [Chemoprevention & risk-reducing surgery](https://onco.cc/technologies/chemoprevention/), [HPV & HBV vaccination](https://onco.cc/technologies/hpv-vaccine/), [HPV DNA testing and self-sampling](https://onco.cc/technologies/hpv-testing/)
- institutions: [Indian Council of Medical Research](https://onco.cc/institutions/icmr/), [International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/iarc/), [World Health Organization Cancer Programme](https://onco.cc/institutions/who/)
- people: [Shalini Singh](https://onco.cc/people/shalini-singh/)
- bottlenecks: [Prevention we already have is not deployed](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-prevention-adoption/), [The hardest cancers are found late](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-early-detection/)
- roadmaps: [Cancer prevention roadmap: tobacco control and vaccines → biomarker-guided chemoprevention → interception in carriers](https://onco.cc/roadmaps/prevention-roadmap/)

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