17 People die every minute from cancer

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World Cancer Day (4 Feb)


World Cancer Day, organized by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and celebrated each year on 4 February, is an opportunity to rally the international community to end the injustice of preventable suffering from cancer.
As per WHO ( world health organization), This year theme, "I can, we can" acknowledges that everyone has the capacity to address the cancer burden. We can work together to reduce cancer risk factors. We can overcome barriers to early diagnosis, treatment and palliative care. We can work together to improve cancer control and achieve global targets to reduce premature mortality from cancer and NCDs.

Cancer Prevention 

Between 30-50% of all cancer cases are preventable. Prevention offers the most cost effective long term strategy for the control of cancer. National policies and programmes should be implemented to raise awareness, to reduce exposure to cancer risk factors and to ensure that people are provided with the information and the support they need to adopt healthy lifestyles.

TOBACCO

Worldwide, tobacco use is the single greatest avoidable risk factor for cancer mortality and kills approximately 6 million people each year, from cancer and other diseases. Tobacco smoke has more than 7000 chemicals, at least 250 are known to be harmful and more than 50 are known to cause cancer.
  • Tobacco smoking: causes cancers of the lung, oesophagus, larynx(voice box), mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, pancreas, stomach, and cervix;
  • Second- hand smoke (also known as environmental tobacco smoke): causes lung cancer in non-smoking adults; and
  • Smokeless tobacco (also called oral tobacco, chewing tobacco or snuff): causes oral, oesophageal and pancreatic cancer.
Nearly 809% of the 1 billion smokers in the world live in low and middle income countries.

There are various other factors which we will discuss in upcoming blogs.

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