08 Februarie 2021 06:20
Today on World Cancer Day (4 February), Cansa and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) encourages people to set and achieve personal goals enabling them to lower cancer risk.
They also encourage cancer patients to optimise health, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Cancer continues to claim lives unnecessarily. It’s important that despite Covid-19 we do not lose sight of the needs of cancer patients, help them to live a balanced lifestyle, safeguard their health and continue to raise the importance of awareness and the signs.
What you can do: .Sign up for the “World Cancer Day ’21 Days to Impact Challenge” to receive an email every day with a new activity, inspiration, lesson or prompt.. Know your body..Vaccinate against HPV and Hepatitus B.. Do regular cancer screening.. Eat smart.. Take Cansa’s online Lifestyle Risk Assessment Tool that can help identify health risks that you need to address.. Keep moving a
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This memorable date was proclaimed by the “Union for International Cancer Control” (UICC) in 2005.
Cancer is a generic term for over 100 diseases that can affect any part of the body.
As the director of the Scientific and Clinical Center of Oncology of Turkmenistan Mive Berdimuradova notes, in our time the causes of these diseases are well known, which makes it possible to prevent about one third of new cases. If they are detected in the early stages, successful treatment is possible, according to the newspaper “Neutral Turkmenistan”.
In Turkmenistan, the provision of assistance to the population with oncological diseases is of a regional-staged nature and consists of three levels:
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Giving the breakdown, the Consultant Surgeon said, out of the figure, 2,055 related to breast cancer, 3,166 to liver cancer, 1,117 to prostate and 1,699 to cervical cancer.
She indicated that, in all, about 24,000 cancer-related cases were diagnosed within the period under review.
Dr. (Mrs) Wiafe Addai, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), on the sidelines of the commemoration of the World Cancer Day at Oduom in the Oforikrom Municipality of the Ashanti Region, described cancer as a silent killer.
The four main prevalent cancer-related diseases in the country, she noted, were breast, liver, prostate and cervical cancers, saying early detection of the cancers was critical in preventing them from causing harm to the patient.