World Cancer Day

📅 Every year on February 4, World Cancer Day is celebrated, which was established in 2000 at the first World Summit to fight cancer in Paris (Paris Charter).

🎗️The main purpose of World Cancer Day is:
🖇️Increasing awareness about cancer as one of the most terrible diseases of modern civilization.
🖇️Attracting society’s attention to the prevention, detection, and treatment of malignant neoplasms.
🖇️An appeal to politicians and organization members to treat cancer as a political priority.

☝️The topical theme of World Cancer Day 2022-2024 is closing gaps in care because half of the world’s population does not have access to the full range of basic medical services.
💰Income, education, location, and discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, and lifestyle are just some of the factors that can negatively affect access to medical services.

*According to materials from the Telegram channel of the National Science Center named after O. O. Shalimov