World Cancer Day 2021: Theme, Significance and how to Fight Cancer
World Cancer Day is observed on February 4 to spread awareness and inspire change. Read this article to know about the significance and how to fight cancer.
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| 4 Feb 2021 7:46 AM GMT
Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. The top cancers that affect the Indian population are lung, breast, cervical, head and neck and colorectal cancer (CRC). So it is important to understand each type of cancer and how it impacts the body.
World Cancer Day: The Significance
World Cancer Day 2021 is observed every year on February 4th to spread awareness, inspire change and bring down the global impact of cancer. This international day is a global uniting initiative led by the Union of International Cancer Control (UICC) and is meant to encourage the prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer as early as possible. The aim to observe this day is to curb all kinds of mis
Over 8,000 die from cancer-related diseases in Ghana in 2020 Dr Beatrice Wiafe LISTEN
FEB 4, 2021
Ghana has recorded 8, 037 deaths from cancer-related diseases in 2020, Dr. Beatrice Wiafe Addai, the former Chairperson of the Ghana Cancer Board, has disclosed.
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.
Lahore February 4, 2021
LAHORE:As a member of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH&RC) is committed to the goals envisioned in the Paris Charter on February 4, 2000 at a world summit against cancer for the new millennium in Paris.
These goals are to promote research, prevent cancer, improve patient services, raise awareness and mobilise the global community to make progress against cancer, and adoption of World Cancer Day on Thursday (today).
In this regard, 2021 is the final year of a three-year campaign “I Am & I Will” which focuses on the importance of collective action.
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More than 166,000 people die of cancer each year, and one in two people who were born after 1960 will be diagnosed with the disease in their lifetime, according to Cancer Research,
Thursday 4 February is World Cancer Day, an international day of awareness led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC).
The day was established in 2000, with the aim of reducing preventable cancer deaths by raising awareness, improving education and urging governments to take action.
According to Cancer Research, smoking is the largest single preventable cause of cancer each year in the UK, and 38 per cent of cancer cases are preventable.