Today is World Cancer Day, 2009
February 4th, 2009 - 1:56 pm ICT by Amrit Rashmisrisethi ( Leave a comment )Every year, World Cancer Day is marked on February 4.
This day is to acknowledge the increasing impact of cancer on people around the world and also the efforts to improve cancer prevention, treatment and care. Cancer is one of the leading cause of death around the globe. World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 84 million people will die of cancer between 2005 and 2015 without intervention.
4th February is is led by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) a global consortium of more than 280 cancer-fighting organizations in over 90 countries. According to UICC ,each year, more than 11 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed, and more than 7 million people die from cancer ;over 70 per cent of them in low and middle-income countries.
Each year on 4 February, WHO joins with the sponsoring International Union Against Cancer to promote ways to ease the global burden of cancer. Preventing cancer and raising quality of life for cancer patients are recurring themes.
The campaign emphasizes that 43% of cancers can be prevented by following:
* Provide a smoke-free environment for children
* Be physically active, eat a balanced, healthy diet, and avoid obesity
* Learn about vaccines for virus-related liver and cervical cancers
* Avoid over-exposure to the sun
- United Nations general assembly on non-communicable diseases (NCD) - May 14, 2010
- Call for International Action to Combat Epidemic of Non-communicable Diseases - May 19, 2009
- Screening can save Indian women from killer cancer - Mar 06, 2011
- By 2015, 2 million people would die annually from tobacco-induced cancers - Aug 26, 2009
- WHO raises alert over rising cancer deaths - Feb 02, 2010
- World Environment Day (WED 2010): Smoke-free environment is a right - Jun 05, 2010
- Non-communicable diseases leading cause of deaths: UN - Apr 28, 2011
- New therapy could help beat Hepatitis C virus - Jan 17, 2012
- Only 5.4 pct of world's people covered by smoke free laws in 2008: WHO - Dec 09, 2009
- Deaths due to cancer decline in US - Jan 07, 2012
- Cancer is not a disease of the rich but a global health priority, say experts - Aug 16, 2010
- Cancer Deaths To Double By 2030, Says UN Report - Jun 05, 2010
- The next health tsunami: Non-communicable diseases - Jul 09, 2009
- About $22 bn investment needed to fight HIV: UNAIDS - Jun 03, 2011
- Indian enterprise to set up $30 mn cancer centre in Ethiopia - Jul 24, 2011
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