Each February 4th is celebrated on World Cancer Day. Its objective is to teach that there are ways to avoid illness.
Each year, 9.6 million people die of cancer, a figure that it exceeds the human lives taken by HIV / AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Experts estimate that pBy 2040, 16.5 million lives will be lost to cancer.
Why is World Cancer Day celebrated?
This celebration originated in the year 2000 as initiative led by Union for International Cancer Control (UICC).
The activities to celebrate this day aim to create awareness on prevention and the education as pillars from fight against cancer. In this way, greater knowledge about the individual responsibility Y collective that allows save millions of lives who lose the battle against any type of cancer.
Cancer can be avoided o provide dignified treatment and care that improve the patient’s quality of life. Even, death can be prevented because of this disease considered second leading cause of death in the Americas.
This date, then, aims to remember the role that must be assumed to reduce the global impact of cancer.
How do we support the fight against cancer?
The theme for World Cancer Day in 2021 is: ‘I am and I will.’ It is an invitation for each person to make a commitment to act. How?
- To choose No Smoking neither directly nor indirectly, as a passive smoker.
- Schedule the screening tests cancer considering the risks according to age, gender and family history.
- Facilitate the skin care against the sun. This could lower your chances of skin cancer, the most common type of cancer.
- Bring habits of life healthy, with exercises and a balanced diet that keep away diseases that increase the risk of suffering from some type of cancer.
- Promote preventive actions in their sons, by giving them vaccines like the human papillomavirus (HPV) that can prevent almost all HPV-associated cancers.
- Stay informed about symptoms that indicate the urgency of tests to rule out cancer. It is also important to debunk myths and falsehoods about the disease.
According to the National Cancer Institute, 3 out of 5 people will never be diagnosed with cancer in their entire life. This is the best reason to fight the disease and be a spokesperson for ways to prevent it.
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