World Cancer Day -February 04

World Cancer Day is marked on February 04 to raise awareness of Cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection and treatment.

World Cancer Day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to support the goals of the World Cancer Declaration written in 2008

The primary goal of the World Cancer Day is to significantly reduce illness and death caused by Cancer by 2020

According to the World Health Organization (WHO)

nearly 30 % cancer deaths can be prevented by addressing the main risk factors -- tobacco use, alcohol, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and excess body weight.

Tobacco use is the single most important factor for cancer, causing 22 % of the global 8.2 million deaths due to cancer, and 71% of the global lung cancer deaths.

The southeast Asian region is home to 250 million smokers and an equal number of smokeless tobacco users.

 In women, cancer is caused when there is early menarche and late menopause, obesity and exposure to viruses like HPV.

it is estimated that 84 million people will die of cancer between 2005 and 2015 without intervention.