World Cancer Day is marked on 4th
February every year to raise awareness about cancer and to encourage patients
and non-patients about its prevention, detection, and treatment. World Cancer
Day was initiated in 2000 at the 1st World Summit Against Cancer, held in
Paris. World Cancer Day is observed each year to raise awareness and educate
people about cancer, thus aiming to save millions of preventable deaths and
also pressing the governments and individuals across the globe to take action
against the disease. While there have been immense advancement in
the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer—issues that should add to
the decline of the disease, contrarily the figures of new cancer cases
diagnosed each year has continued to increase globally.
World Cancer Day is an important date in
the calendar. Highly involved organizations and individuals are encouraged to
use the day for an intensive ‘advocacy push’, calling on different governments
to live up to these new and ambitious pledges, and ensure that cancer prevention
measures, are effectively addressed and implemented in the next phase of the
global health and development agendas.
Importance
of World Cancer Day
Globally, cancer epidemic is huge and rising
with each year. Presently, 8.2 million people die from cancer worldwide every
year, amongst them, 4 million people die ahead of time (aged 30 to 69 years). Crucial
action needs to be taken to raise awareness about the disease and to develop
practical strategies that address the cancer problem. Globally, all individuals do not have the knowledge or the means mostly
in the access to prevention through proper diagnosis, treatment and comforting
care. At the moment, there is a need for a global pledge to help drive improvements
in policy and encourage execution of comprehensive National Cancer Control Plans.
World Cancer Day is the ideal chance to spread the word and raise the profile of cancer in people’s minds and in the
world media.
On a global front, communities organize
festivals, seminars, walks, general awareness campaigns and other events to
raise consciousness and educate people on how to fight cancer through screening
and early detection, healthy eating habits and regular physical activity, by
quitting smoking, and by urging public officials to make cancer issues a
priority.
Cancer - A
life-threatening Disease
In brief, cancer is a group of diverse ailments
involving irregular cell growth. In malignancy, cells divide and grow nonstop
to form malignant tumors and attack nearby organs or parts of the body. The
cancer tumor can spread to more distant parts of the body through blood or
lymph nodes. It has been perceived that most of the cancer cases and related
deaths happen in less developed countries and the situation is expected to get
worse by 2030. Therefore, it is very essential to get control over such fatal
medical condition across the globe.
Role of
World Cancer Day in preventing Cancer
WCD targets to save millions of preventable
deaths every year by raising awareness and by teaching people about malignancy
and to take action against the disease. World Cancer Day is a chance to reflect
on what you can do, make a pledge and take appropriate action and make a
difference to fight against Cancer. It is a unique opportunity to raise
awareness that there is so much that can be done at an individual, community
and governmental level, to draft and implement these solutions and catalyze
positive change. This day is also celebrated to plan certain new strategies and
to suggest various new programs in order to make people aware of this illness.
WCD is celebrated to make people aware about the preventive ways and means and
the risk factors of cancer.
Early detection raises the chances of
complete cure and survival. But unfortunately, it is often detected in very
advanced stage this greatly reduces the patients chances of cure or survival. The
cancer patients need moral support and understanding as much as the various
treatments and therapies. Therefore, it is very important to make them feel
better like a normal person. They should be also prepared for a normal
environment in their home and society. It is essential that normal people avoid
being overly sympathetic to them.
Some of the past campaigns were focused
more on awareness and making people understand that living with Cancer patients
or being a Cancer patient is not scary.
·
World Cancer Day 2013: ‘Cancer
- Did you know’
·
World Cancer Day 2014: ‘Debunk
the Myths’
·
World Cancer Day 2015: ‘Not
Beyond Us’
·
World Cancer Day 2016-2018: ‘We
can. I can.’
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