With an objective to boost the morale and provide emotional support to the patients and their relatives, the NGO, comprising of patients who recuperated from the disease after treatment, held a series of events on Monday evening.

Dr Vibha Naik, chief of the NGO, popularly known as V-Can Care, said, "We organised events with the patients, which includes a musical evening by Jay Solanki (32) who recovered from Cancer and now plays instrumental music."

The group has been functional for the last three years and comprises of nine people who have done counselling sessions on the disease. She said, "Among nine counsellors, there are Kashmira Bhojak and Vinoli Gandhi who recovered from breast cancer and Sophie Joseph who recovered from lymphoma after five years."

She further said that they seek to alleviate the stress and trauma associated with the disease by razing myths associated with it, adding "The counselling is effective because most of the therapists have recovered from cancer."