World Cancer Day 2025 official campaign launch

World Cancer Day 2025 will be formally and publicly launched on 4 November 2024. More information coming soon.

World Cancer Day is an international day observed every 4 February to raise awareness about cancer, encourage its prevention, and mobilise action to address the global cancer epidemic. The day is led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and was established in the year 2000. 

By catalysing personal, collective and government  action, we are all working together to reimagine a world where millions of cancer deaths are prevented and access to life-saving cancer treatment and care is equitable for all - no matter who you are or where you live. 

Each year, hundreds of activities and events take place around the world, gathering communities, organisations and individuals in schools, businesses, hospitals, marketplaces, parks, community halls, places of worship - in the streets and online - acting as a powerful reminder that we all have a role to play in reducing the global impact of cancer.

UICC runs World Cancer Day campaigns in three-year cycles to allow for a deeper exploration of a particular theme and achieve greater impact.

The new World Cancer Day's theme (2025-2027), “United by Unique” will explore different dimensions of people-centred cancer care and new ways of making a difference, Cancer is more than just a medical diagnosis—it’s a deeply personal matter. That’s why a people-centred approach to cancer care that fully integrates each individual’s unique needs, with compassion and empathy, leads to the best health outcomes. 

Because people are more. More than a diagnosis. More than a disease. More than a patient. More than a caregiver.

Everyone has unique needs, unique perspectives, and a unique story to tell, yet people touched by cancer are united in a shared ambition to lower the cancer burden, to see cancer treated successfully, and to lead better lives with cancer.

Join us on 4 February and help us make a difference.

It would be good at some point to create a page about the history of the different campaigns on uicc.org.

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