On February 4, the international public marks the World Cancer Day. The World Health Organization and the International Union Against Cancer unite their efforts to fight this disease and its global consequences.
Cancer is the main cause of death in the entire world. According to estimates of the World Health Organization, 84 million people will die of cancer during the period of 2005-2015.
In 2010, the World Cancer Day will be marked under a special slogan “Cancer can be prevented too”.
More details at: http://www.worldcancercampaign.org
10 facts about cancer:
- More than 100 kinds of cancer exist and the disease can develop in any part of a body.
- Every year 12 million people in the world are diagnosed with cancer and 7.8 million among them will die of this disease.
- More than 70 percent of all cases of cancer diseases are registered in countries with low or medium level of income.
- In the world, most men die of the following five kinds of cancer (according to the level of spread, from the biggest to the smallest): lung cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, cancer of segmented and straight intestine, esophagus cancer.
- In the world, most women die of the following five kinds of cancer (according to the level of spread, from the biggest to the smallest): breast cancer, lung cancer, stomach cancer, cancer of segmented and straight intestine, cervix uteri cancer.
- Consumption of tobacco is the single important cause of development of cancer in the world and that can be neutralized.
- One fifth of all cancer diseases develop due to chronic infection.
- Under early diagnostics and corresponding treatment, one third of cancer diseases are treated successfully.
- All cancer patients, who suffer from pain, can be helped by application of modern knowledge and anesthetization practices and by high-quality provision of palliative care.
- 30 percent of all cancer diseases can be prevented under the condition of abstaining from smoking, healthy nutrition, doing sports and prevention of infections.
