40 Per Cent Of Cancers Are Preventable: Message For World Cancer Day
This year, the message for World Cancer Day, 4th February, is “Cancer can be prevented too”, with experts suggesting that 40 per cent of the 12.4 million cancers diagnosed and 7.6 million cancer deaths worldwide could be prevented if we applied what we know about avoiding infections and changing lifestyles.
The International Union Against Cancer (UICC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) who are marking World Cancer Day, said such reductions could be within our reach were we to apply “evidence-based cancer prevention strategies”.
If someone came up with a single vaccine or drug that was proven to cure 40 per cent of all cancers we would all be dancing in the streets, yet in effect this is what we have says the UICC, except it isn’t in one tablet, it’s in lots of different bits of knowledge and strategies, we just need to apply them effectively and comprehensively.
The UICC said cancer prevention strategies include simple things like:
* Quitting use of tobacco and avoiding second-hand smoke,
