'National Cancer Awareness Day' teaches to fight cancer, know the importance of this special day

National Cancer Awareness Day 2024: Cancer is one of the most serious diseases in the world. This disease has spread everywhere, so due to less information about it, the disease takes a serious form. Cancer Awareness Day is celebrated every year on 7th November to make people aware about cancer. It is celebrated in view of the situation of cancer cases in India. Every year lakhs of people die due to cancer, among which breast cancer is most prevalent among women, while prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men.

Know when it started

Talking about Cancer Awareness Day here, in 2014, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Minister of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, started celebrating National Cancer Awareness Day in September. The reason behind celebrating this day was due to the increasing cancer cases in India. This day was started realizing the need to catch this deadly disease in time.

Talking about the specialty of this day, it is celebrated on the birthday of Nobel Prize winning scientist Madame Curie, so that her huge contribution in fighting cancer can be remembered. In India, on this special day, people are given free screening in government hospitals and municipal clinics.

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How is cancer treatment possible?

If we talk about cancer here, if you identify this disease in time then treatment becomes possible. Treatment depends on how much cancer has spread in the person's body and at what stage it is.

-Treatment options like chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy, radiation therapy etc. are used in the treatment of cancer.
-The method of cancer treatment also depends on the health of the patient and what is his family history.
-If cancer is caught in the beginning itself, it can be cured quite easily.