India, Oct. 7 -- Each October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month unleashes commemorative banners, webinars, and survivor testimonials, celebrating patients across public forums as enduring symbols of courage.

Yet once marketing concludes, structural deficits across India's cancer care continuum remain unaddressed: acute survivorship care gaps and the precarious status of independent advocates within healthcare governance. Transforming performative awareness into measurable outcomes requires concrete policy execution: defining independent research advocacy, integrating structured survivorship navigation to alleviate clinical overload, and institutionalising Fair Market Value (FMV) compensation for lived-experience consulting.

Acute Eradicati...