Question: World Cancer Day is celebrated on-
(a) 2 February
(b) 3 February
(c) 4 February
(d) 5 February
Ans. (c)
Related facts:
- On 4 February 2017 World Cancer Day was celebrated across the world.
- The World Cancer Day 2017 has a theme called ‘We can. I can’.
- The main aim of the World Cancer Day is to reduce the problems caused due to the deadly disease by 2020.
- It is a three-year campaign for the World Cancer Day in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
- The campaign was created to focus on how people on an individual or collective level can do their bit to reduce the increasing cases of cancer.
- 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.
- Union for International Cancer Control was in 1933 and based in Geneva, Switzerland, UICC has a membership of over 800 organisations across 155 countries, and features the world’s major cancer societies, ministries of health, research institutes and patient groups.
- Currently, 8.2 million people die from cancer worldwide every year, out of which, 4 million people die prematurely (aged 30 to 69 years)
Reference:
http://www.worldcancerday.org/about
http://www.uicc.org/convening/world-cancer-day