World Cancer Day : Types and treatment of cancer : Today, on February 4th, we stand together on Day. But this year, it’s not just about raising awareness. It’s about challenging the status quo. The theme for 2024 “Together, we challenge those in power” demands action, not just applause.
Cancer doesn’t discriminate, but access to quality care often does. Millions face a care gap, where geography, income, or simply being ignored by powerful systems leave them struggling. This year, let’s bridge that gap, together.
Here’s how you can be a part of the fight:
- Raise your voice: Talk to your elected officials, healthcare providers, and community leaders. Demand equitable access to cancer prevention, screening, treatment, and palliative care. Share your story or the story of someone you know affected by cancer. Use the hashtag #WorldCancerDay and #CloseTheCareGap to amplify your message.
- Support organizations making a difference: Donate to research, patient support groups, or advocacy organizations working to close the care gap. Volunteer your time or skills to help these groups reach even more people.
- Educate yourself and others: Learn about the different types of cancer, early detection signs, and healthy lifestyle choices that can reduce your risk. Share this knowledge with your family, friends, and community.
- Challenge yourself: Take part in fundraising events, awareness campaigns, or even personal challenges like participating in a 5k run or walk. Every action, big or small, contributes to the movement.
- Be kind and compassionate: Remember, everyone impacted by cancer, from patients to caregivers, faces unique challenges. Offer support, understanding, and a listening ear. Together, we can create a more supportive and equitable world for everyone.
Remember, change starts with us. Let’s not just mark World Cancer Day on the calendar, but use it as a springboard for lasting action. Together, we can challenge the powerful, close the care gap, and create a world where everyone has the chance to fight cancer and thrive.
World Cancer Day activities for students
Calling all young heroes! World Cancer Day, February 4th, is a time to team up and fight against a powerful foe: cancer. But don’t worry, you don’t need superpowers to make a difference! Here are some awesome activities even the littlest heroes can do:
1. Become a Knowledge Ninja:
- Mission: Learn about the “Big C.” Ask your parents, teachers, or a librarian to explain cancer in a kid-friendly way. Remember, knowledge is power!
- Bonus points: Draw pictures of healthy cells and “bad C cells” fighting!
2. Unleash Your Creativity:
- Mission: Create art that inspires hope and courage! Make posters, write poems, sing songs, or even design superhero costumes to fight cancer.
- Bonus points: Share your creations with your classmates, family, or online (with mature person permission)!
3. Move Your Super Body:
- Mission: Organize a mini-marathon, danceathon, or even a superhero obstacle course! Get your friends and family moving while raising awareness.
- Bonus points: Donate the money you raise to a cancer charity or research organization.
4. Spread Kindness Like Confetti:
- Mission: Make cards or write letters of encouragement for people battling cancer. You can also create “get well soon” videos or sing their favorite songs!
- Bonus points: Organize a bake sale or lemonade stand and donate the proceeds to a cancer charity.
5. Be a Tech Hero:
- Mission: Design a website or app that teaches others about cancer or connects people affected by it. You can even create online fundraising campaigns!
- Bonus points: Share your digital creations with your school or community and encourage others to get involved.
Remember: Every action, big or small, makes a difference! By working together, even the youngest heroes can help close the care gap and create a world where everyone has the chance to fight cancer and thrive.
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What is Cancer ?
Cancer is a disease that happens when some body cells proliferate uncontrollably and invade other body parts.
With trillions of cells in the human body, cancer can start almost anywhere. Human cells normally divide to produce new cells as needed by the body through growth and multiplication. When old cells die due to ageing or injury, new ones replace them.
This controlled mechanism can occasionally fail, allowing damaged or abnormal cells to multiply and expand when they should not. These cells can develop tumours, which are masses of tissue. Tumours can be either cancerous or benign.
Cancerous tumours infiltrate neighbouring tissues and can move to distant parts of the body to generate new tumours (a process known as metastasis). Cancerous tumours are also known as malignant tumours. Many cancers develop into solid tumours, while blood cancers, such as leukaemias, do not.
Benign tumours do not spread or infect surrounding tissues. Benign tumours seldom recur after removal, although malignant tumours occasionally do. However, benign tumours can grow to be extremely enormous. Some, such as benign brain tumours, can cause severe symptoms or even death.
How Does Cancer Develop?
Cancer is a genetic disease, which means it is caused by abnormalities in the genes that control how our cells behave, particularly how they grow and divide.
Cancer-causing genetic alterations can occur due to the following:
- of various mistakes that arise during cell division.
- DNA damage induced by hazardous compounds in the environment, such as tobacco smoke chemicals and solar UV radiation. (See our Cancer Causes and Prevention section for more information.)
- they were inherited those from our parents
The body generally destroys cells with damaged DNA before they become malignant. However, the body’s ability to do so declines as we age. This is one of the reasons why people are more likely to develop cancer as they get older.
Each person’s cancer has a unique set of genetic alterations. As the cancer progresses, further alterations will occur. Even within the same tumour, individual cells may have distinct genetic alterations.
World Cancer Day : Types and treatment of cancer
Breast cancer is the most frequent type of cancer in the United States, followed by lung and prostate cancers, according to the National Cancer Institute. Nonmelanoma skin cancers were excluded from these data.
Every year, more than 40,000 people in the country are diagnosed with one of the following forms of cancer.
- bladder
- colon and rectal
- endometrial
- melanoma
- non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- pancreatic
- thyroid
- kidney
- leukemia
- liver
Cancer treatment
The type of cancer, its location, size, whether it has spread, and your overall health all affect how you will be treated. Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy, and gene therapy are among the common therapeutic modalities.
- Surgery
- Radiotherapy
- Chemotherapy
- Immunotherapy
- Hormone therapy
- Gene therapy
- Survivorship
- Palliative care
