World Cancer Day

World Cancer Day is a global observance that helps raise people’s awareness of cancer and how to prevent, detect or treat it. This event is held on February 4 each year.

Background

Cancer is a leading cause of death around the world, according to WHO, which estimates that 84 million people will die of cancer between 2005 and 2015 without intervention. Low-income and medium-income countries are harder hit by cancer than the high-resource countries. It is essential to address the world's growing cancer burden and to work on effective control measures.

The WHO has also estimated that up to 500,000 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed annually in Nigeria by 2015 if prevention and screening strategies are not robust. As the world marks World Cancer Day again on 4th February, how informed and equipped is Nigeria to fight cancer?

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This years theme for the World Cancer day is: "teach children and teenagers to avoid UV exposure by being "sun smart"
Mother's should try and make sure their children and wards are properly clothed in clothes whenever the sun is out. This is usually between the hours of 10.00am and 6.oopm.
This will go a long way in reducing and totally eliminating skin cancer amongst others.
Though emphasis seems to be on skin cancer this year due to the amount of exposure youths especially are being exposed to, market women with little or no stalls also stand a good chance of having cancer of the skin.
Students should be raised with the awareness of staying out of the sun whenever the sun is fully out. This usually occurs in Nigeria between the hours of 12.30pm and 4.30pm.
Fight against cancer has been going on for a while now.
it is one of the highest killers in Nigeria. it kills more people than AIDS!!

The campaign emphasizes that 40% of cancers can be prevented through these healthy behaviors:

Provide a smoke-free environment for children
Be physically active, eat a balanced, healthy diet, and avoid obesity
Learn about vaccines for virus-related liver and cervical cancers
Avoid over-exposure to the sun

So lets go out there with a new outlook on life.
Its a beautiful World....dont lets leave it in a hurry.