World Cancer Day

World Cancer Day 2023 is back this 4 February, and you are invited to fight cancer with us at our World Cancer Day Carnival!

Join us at Kampung Admiralty and bring your loved ones for a day of fun and learn how to fight cancer, because no one fights cancer alone!
Look forward to an eventful day of fun and learning all in one place. This carnival is fit for all ages.

Venue:
Kampung Admiralty, 676 Woodlands Dr 71
9AM - 4:30PM
Admission is FREE.

Highlights:

Performances by Glenn Yong and SCS cancer support group members
Activity booths
Zumba Gold workout
Faecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) Kit distribution
Educational Talks by specialists

Talk Topics:

Prevention and Screening of Colorectal Cancer (10:30 AM English / 2:00 PM Mandarin)
Does Eating Healthily Prevent Cancer? (10 AM)
Mental Emotional Resilience in the midst of living with cancer. (2:45 PM)

Close the Care Gap

World Cancer Day 2022 - 2024 embraces a new 3-year phase, with the theme ‘Close the Care Gap’.

It is all about understanding and recognising the inequities in cancer care. Let’s have an open mind in looking at the hard facts and challenging assumptions.

In Singapore, some people don’t or are unable to go for cancer screening. Some cancer patients don’t even have access to the necessary medical care and services, while others may face challenges in finding or sustaining re-employment due to various issues.

In the 2nd year of #CloseTheCareGap, join us in creating awareness and pledge your support to close the gaps in cancer care!

What else can you do this World Cancer Day?
Join us at the Singapore Cancer Society-TalkMed Relay For Life 2023!

WCD21 2 support

Singapore Cancer Society - TalkMed Relay For Life 2023

Celebrate. Fight Back. Remember

4 – 5 March 2023 [Launch Event]
4 – 12 March 2023 [Virutal]

Funds raised from the event will go towards SCS' continuous effort to provide cancer
patients access to services like cancer treatment subsidies, welfare assistance,
cancer rehabilitation, hospice care, cancer screenings, as well as research and public education initiatives.

Learn more: www.relayforlife.sg

Take a pledge this World Cancer Day!

I Will Focus On My Health. I Will Support Someone With Cancer, I Will Get Screened.

Together, we can #CloseTheCareGap

What Are The Care Gaps?

Do you know these gaps exist in cancer care?

1. Preventive Care
Some people don’t go or unable to go for screening, due to various barriers.

2. Care in Workplace
Cancer patients are unable to work due to barriers like discrimination in the workplace.
(learn how to create a cancer-friendly workplace: read more)

3. Access to Cancer Care Services
Patients facing financial barrriers don’t have access to the necessary medical care and services (e.g Rehabilitation, Welfare, Support Groups & Programmes, Hospice Care).

4. Continuum of Care
Lack of awareness of available cancer support services, (e.g Rehabilitation, Welfare, Support Groups & Programmes, Hospice Care)

I Will Support Someone
I Know With Cancer

Your donation will go towards our
continuous effort to provide cancer
patients access to services like cancer
treatment subsidies, welfare assistance,
cancer rehabilitation, hospice care,
cancer screenings, as well as research
and public education initiatives.

Donate today at: www.bit.ly/donate-scs

I Will Focus On My Health

I Will Get Screened

Singapore Cancer Society - TalkMed Relay For Life 2023

Celebrate. Fight Back. Remember

4 – 12 March 2023
www.relayforlife.sg

Together with Temasek Foundation,
Singapore Cancer Society is offering
HPV vaccinations at no cost to ladies
between 18 to and 26 years of age at
participating CHAS clinics.
Stay tuned for more updates!
#JabOutHPV

Global Light Up

The world will witness some of the most significant buildings and landmarks light up in orange and blue to mark World Cancer Day this coming 4 February. Cities around the world, including Singapore, will be signalling their commitment to the global challenge of cancer. The act of lighting up major landmarks not only helps to bring attention to World Cancer Day, but is a symbolic act of hope in the ongoing fight against cancer.

The following buildings in Singapore were lighted in orange and blue on 4 February 2022:


Gardens by the Bay	ION Orchard	HSBC Rain Vortex, Jewel	Khoo Teck Puat Hospital

National Gallery Singapore	Ocean Financial Centre	Our Tampines Hub	Orchard Gateway

Suntec Convention Centre	South Beach	Ten Square	Yishun Community Hospital

What is World Cancer Day?

World Cancer Day is an international day marked on 4 February every year to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. The primary goal of World Cancer Day is to significantly reduce illness and death caused by cancer, and rally the international community to end the injustice of preventable suffering from cancer.

It is an initiative of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), the largest and oldest international cancer organisation dedicated to taking the lead in convening, capacity building and advocacy initiatives that unite the cancer community to reduce the global cancer burden, promote greater equity, and integrate cancer control into the world health and development agenda.

World Cancer Day was born on 4 February 2000 at the World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium in Paris. The Paris Charter aims to promote research, prevent cancer, improve patient services, raise awareness and mobilise the global community to make progress against cancer, and includes the adoption of World Cancer Day.

Read the full text of the Paris Charter here

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