Deepam project began with screening women for cervix and breast cancer free of cost and extended it to the free screening of oral cavity cancer in tobacco users in 2012.
Now it has forayed into the screening for prostate cancer, as its phase III program, Dr.P.Guhan, Director and Chief of the Institute, said.
To ensure, emphasise and encourage men in this category to undergo screening for prostate cancer, free screening will be on till March four, Guhan said.