Join the World Cancer Day Call to Action
We call on governments around the world to promote health equity, enhance cancer service accessibility, reduce disparities in cancer incidence and mortality, to finally close the care gap.
The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), the organiser of World Cancer Day, encourages everyone to ask their governments to improve health equity, to make it easier for all populations to enjoy affordable and accessible cancer services, and to reduce disparities in cancer incidence and mortality.
We have an extraordinary opportunity to accelerate progress toward this goal – but only if we act now together.
Add your voice to the effort and ask your representative to close the care gap.
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Key actions that governments can take
- Increase funding for cancer research
- Develop a population-based cancer registry
- Implement an effective national cancer strategy
- Take measurable action towards universal health coverage
- Improve education around cancer
- Strictly regulate the production, sales and marketing of tobacco, alcohol and other carcinogenic products
- Implement routine screening programmes for common cancers
- Foster patient-centred care
- Address the systemic social determinants of health