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World Cancer Day

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Each year on 4 February, PAHO/WHO supports the Union for International Cancer Control to promote ways to ease the global burden of cancer. Preventing cancer and raising quality of life for cancer patients are recurring themes of World Cancer Day.

World Cancer Day 2024: Close the care gap

Articles and Documents
Fecha
Holding patient's hand
Global cancer burden growing, amidst mounting need for services
World Cancer Day 2024:
World Cancer Day 2024: Close the care gap
World Cancer Day
World Cancer Day 2023: Close the care gap
Niña, paciente con cáncer
55% of children and adolescents with cancer recover in Latin America and the Caribbean
World Cancer Day 2022: Close the care gap
World Cancer Day 2022: Close the care gap
health worker and patient
PAHO urges diagnosis and treatment of cancer, the 2nd leading cause of death in the Americas
Cancer Day 2021, I am and I will
World Cancer Day 2021: I Am and I Will
Cancer Day 2020, I am and I will
World Cancer Day 2020: I Am and I Will
Poster - World Cancer Day 2016: I Can, We Can
Banner - World Cancer Day 2016: I Can, We Can
Poster - World Cancer Day 2015: Preventing and curing cancer is not beyond us
woman with doctor
PAHO seeks to prevent breast and cervical cancer, which claim some 120,000 lives each year in the Americas
Two-thirds of future cancer cases will be in developing countries