World Cancer Day 2022 – quotes and theme for this year
PEOPLE come together every February 4 to spread awareness for World Cancer Day.
It's a day to engage the public on preventing and treating cancer in a bid to lower diagnoses.
What is the World Cancer Day 2022 theme?
The themes are three years long, with this year being the first of the theme "Close the Care Gap".
The states that it will focus on understanding the inequalities in cancer care globally.
It encourages people to think about how they can change the gap.
"Inequity in cancer care costs lives and people who seek cancer care hit barriers at every turn.
"Income, education, location and discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability and lifestyle are just a few of the factors that can negatively affect care."
Last year, the theme ended three years of "I am and I will" which served as a "reminder of the enduring power of cooperation and collective action"
World Cancer Day quotes
- "Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart," - Greg Anderson
- "Don't let pain define you, let it refine you," - Tim Fargo
- "You can be a victim of cancer or a survivor of cancer. It’s a mindset," - Dave Pelzer
- "Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul," - Jim Valvano
- "Cancer cannot cripple love, it cannot shatter hope, it cannot conquer the spirit,"- Unknown
- "Cancer is a marathon – you can’t look at the finish line. You take it moment by moment, sometimes breath by breath, other times step by step," - Sarah Betz Bucciero
MORE ON CANCERS
What are the latest stats for beating cancer?
There are around 370,000 new cases of cancer over a two year period.
There are more than 166,000 cancer deaths in the UK every year, that's more than 450 every day.
In females in the UK, there were around 77,800 cancer deaths in 2018 and in males, there were around 89,000 cancer deaths in 2018.
Every four minutes someone in the UK dies from cancer and lung, bowel, breast and prostate cancers together accounted for almost half of all cancer deaths in the UK in 2018.
Around a fifth of all cancer deaths are from lung cancer and mortality rates for all cancers combined in the UK are highest in people over 90.
Each year, more than half (54%) of all cancer deaths in the UK are in people aged 75 and over.
One in tw0 people in the UK born after 1960 will be diagnosed with some form of cancer during their lifetime.
And person’s risk of developing cancer depends on many factors, including age, genetics, and exposure to risk factors.
Nearly 112,000 England cases, around 13,000 Scotland cancer cases, around 7,200 Wales cancer cases, and around 3,500 Northern Ireland cancer cases every year could be prevented.
Smoking is the largest cause of cancer in the UK, accounting for 15% of all cancer cases.