Delhi’s best cancer doctors explain…
World Cancer Day is marked on every 4th of February as a globally united initiative, and it is led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). Through raising chanced awareness across the world, improving education and speeding up personal, collective and government actions, the initiative seeks to bring people working together and reimagining a world free from millions of preventable cancer deaths, where there is affordable access to life-saving cancer treatment and equitable care is available for all – no matter what your identity is or where you’re from.
Conceived and created in 2000, World Cancer Day has gone on to become amajor positive movement for everyone involved, from everywhere; to unite and come together as one voice to face one of the greatest health challenges in human history.
Every year, many hundreds of activities and events are organised to take place globally, with gathered communities, organisations and individuals get together in schools, colleges, businesses, hospitals, parks, community halls, places of worship, the streets and this year specifically: online. This serves as a powerful reminder that all of us will have a role to play in bringing down the global impact of cancer.
The theme for this year’s World Cancer Dayis, ‘I Am and I Will’, which is all about you as an individual and your own commitment to act. We believe only through our positive actions and always together, will we reach our targets of reducingpremature deaths from cancer and other noncommunicable diseases by at least one third by 2030.
World Cancer Day is led by the UICC, the Union for International Cancer Control. and has members from across 172 countries. World Cancer Day gives us a unique opportunity to come together and treat cancer as a global challenge. In 2018 alone, 18 million people world-wide were diagnosed with cancer, and 2019 may have seen even more diagnoses but these numbers could not be ascertained due to COVID-19. It is estimated that 10 million people die every year from cancer, which is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
By 2030, experts project cancer deaths to rise to over 13 million;
If we don’t act.
What happens if we act?
More than a third of cancer cases will be prevented. Another third could be cured if detected early and treated.By implementing certain resource-appropriate strategies for prevention, early detection and treatment, we can save more than 3.7 million lives every year.
Here’s how the fight against cancer can be summed up.
Progress
We know more about cancer today than we have known before.
Through investment in research and innovation, the world witnessed extraordinary advances in medicine, diagnostics, and scientific knowledge.
The more the world knows, the more progress it can make in reducing risk factors, with more prevention and improving cancer diagnoses, treatment, and care.
Impact
The United Nations, the World Health Organisation and other UN agencies have recognised the urgent need for a global commitment to fight cancer, and our leaders need speak up more and take action, only then will we give ourselves a chance to make history and move towards a cancer free world.
Equity
Over 60% cancer deaths occur in the least developed parts of the world.If high income countries are observed further, we see cancer more prevalent among low income, indigenous, immigrant, refugee and rural communities.Equal access to cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care can save lives and lead to improved healthy for the entire population.
Change
By raising public and political literacyunderstanding about cancer, we will reduce fear, have more understanding, bust myths and misconceptions, and see considerable shift inbehaviour and attitude.
Scientific advances in fighting cancer mean that today, the prospects of major advances in tackling cancer are greater than ever before, and more international collaboration and funding are still needed in order to realise these opportunities presented to us.
By doing so, we can transform the way we prevent, diagnose and treat cancer, benefitting those people with the disease both here India and around the world.
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