World Cancer Day Occurring under the slogan ‘Not past us‘, World Cancer Day 2015 took a positive and proactive way to deal with the battle against growth, highlighting that arrangements do exist over the continuum of malignancy, and that they are inside of our scope. The 2015 battle was enunciated around four key regions of core interest:
- Picking sound lives
- Delivering early detection
- Achieving treatment for all
- Maximizing personal satisfaction
Occurring under the slogan “We Can. I Can”, World Cancer Day 2016-2018 will investigate how everybody – as a group or as people – can do their part to decrease the worldwide weight of growth. Pretty much as disease influences everybody in various ways, all individuals have the ability to take different activities to lessen the effect that tumor has on people, families and groups.
World Cancer Day is an opportunity to consider what you can do, make a promise and make a move. Whatever you do ‘We can. I can.’ have any kind of effect to the battle against tumor. Tumor will execute more than eight million individuals worldwide this year. Half of these will be individuals of working age (30-69 years of age).
It has been assessed that the cost suggestions on world economies brought about by tumor and the other non-transferable illnesses (counting emotional wellness) could be as high as USD47 trillion if no move is made to decrease the expected development in cases throughout the following two decades. This is a more prominent monetary effect than the worldwide money related emergency of 2008 and speaks to 75% of worldwide GDP. Today on World Cancer Day 2016 (Thursday 4 February), the world unites against this sickness that knows no outskirts and speaks to one of mankind’s most squeezing and budgetary concerns.
Under the battle subject ‘We can. I can.’ World Cancer Day speaks to a remarkable chance to attract thoughtfulness regarding what should be possible to address tumor, spare a huge number of avoidable passings and, thus, bolster worldwide monetary development and advancement.
‘We can’: Today, the world’s driving universal growth NGO, the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), urges companies to center their business on items and administrations that enhance general well being. Besides, UICC is asking governments to direly reaffirm their dedication to the accompanying financially savvy tumor “essentials” bundle that spare lives:
- Usage of immunization projects which anticipate diseases that cause cervical and liver malignancy
- Scale up of access to right on time discovery and screening programs for cervical, bosom and inside tumors and take after on treatment.
- Enhanced tobacco tax assessment, regulation and control.
- Also, as agony alleviation and palliative watch over every single malignancy patient.
‘I can’: With more than 33% of all malignancies (up to 4.5 million every year) preventable through way of life mediations, UICC likewise approaches people to assume liability for decreasing their own disease hazard. Basic measures, for example, halting smoking, eating less red and prepared meat, practicing routinely and diminishing liquor use can broaden a sound life, and must be seen as the principal line of safeguard against growth and other related non-transmittable illnesses.
“World Cancer Day 2016 is an opportunity to consider what everybody can do to diminish the effect of this staggering ailment, now, and for what’s to come. We wish it to be a springboard for positive change. Make a move for yourself, your association or your group/nation, as everybody can have any kind of effect and move others. ‘We can. I can.’ beat malignancy,” noted Professor Tezer Kutluk, UICC President.
“It’s time we all join hands, and take the challenge in the form of Cancer head on”
