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World Cancer Day – 04 February

February 7 , 2018 2353 days 958 0
  • The World Cancer Day (WCD) is observed every year on 4 February across the world to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection and treatment.
  • The theme for the year 2018 is “We can. I can”.
  • “We can. I can” is special three-year campaign for the World Cancer Day from year 2016 to 2018.
  • The WCD was instituted by Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) in 2008 by formally writing goals of the World Cancer Declaration.
  • The primary goal of observing the day is to reduce illness and death caused by it by 2020.

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