Awareness is the first step in handling any problem. If you come across a life-threatening disease like cancer, the first step is to create awareness. As a modern civilization, we have come up with a solution to everything but still, the life-threatening cancer problem is still there. In such a case, building a community that is aware of this threat is crucial. World Cancer Day aims to create an understanding about the severity of Cancer and promoting its diagnosis, and treatment. World Cancer Day 2022 will be celebrated on 4 February. Therefore, let us ensure that we all contribute our part to it and pave the way to the Global Health Environment.
ABOUT WORLD CANCER DAY
The need for a day dedicated to the cancer community and its prevention is vast. Especially because it is a threat that cannot be eliminated but can be addressed effectively. So, let’s take a look at these reasons to understand the significance of World Cancer Day.
• The need for cancer awareness has been especially felt in this situation where due to the Covid-19 outbreak and the closure, treatment of cancer patients took a back seat. We have heard of various incidents in the past year where cancer patients have suffered from a lack of adequate health care facilities. So right now, we need World Cancer Day to bring this talk about cancer in the middle and talk about it in a way that makes a difference.
• We are currently being treated for cancer but the problem is that it can be treated early. Cancer has killed far more people because most patients were not diagnosed in their early stages. Therefore, on World Cancer Day, we must raise awareness about cancer so that it can be cured and reduce the number of casualties.
• The first step in creating a world without cancer is to raise awareness that a disease like cancer exists and can happen to anyone and everyone. Therefore, we all need to talk about it and adopt healthy habits in our lives that can help us deal with this problem at its root. Therefore, the need for World Cancer Day is to ensure that people talk enough about cancer and make changes in their daily lives to prevent its spread.
• World Cancer Day is also important to honor health workers who are always working to prevent and treat the disease. So, this day can be used to value their contribution.
2022 WORLD CANCER DAY THEME
This year’s World Cancer Day will be celebrated on February 4, with the theme “Close the Care Gap.” The three-year “Close the Care Gap” campaign was first introduced to participants at the Conference site in preparation for the UICC World Cancer Leaders’ Conference. Princess Dina Mired of Jordan, Former UICC President, held team discussions with Paul Farmer, Founder and Chief Strategic Partner for Health Partners, and Philippa Kibugu Decuir, Founder and Director of Breast Cancer Initiative East Africa (BCIEA) Inc. In the midst of the epidemic, more than 800 events were held around the world on February 4 to ensure that cancer was not forgotten. On Twitter, World Cancer Day is a global phenomenon, with more than 160 local signs being displayed in 95 cities. On 4 February 2022, the UICC hopes to see the cancer community raise awareness about cancer and push for action with greater vigor and love, which will be seen around the world.
The first year of the ‘Close the Care Gap’ initiative focuses on identifying and analyzing the inequalities in cancer care around the world. It’s all about keeping an open mind, asking for ideas, and exploring facts:
• Inequality in cancer care costs lives.
• People who want to be treated for cancer face obstacles all the time.
• Racial discrimination, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, and lifestyle are just a few of the factors that may adversely affect treatment.
• Everyone is affected by this separation, including you and your loved ones.
• These barriers do not change. They can be changed.
This is a year of challenging the current situation and working to reduce discrimination; listening to the views of cancer patients and their communities, and allowing those who are living their lives to carry out our ideas and actions.
That is how we can begin to think of a new way of doing things and an equal future — when people live healthier lives and have more access to health care and cancer regardless of where they were born, where they grew up, how old they are whether they work or live.