Over one and a half million new cancer cases are diagnosed each year. Anyone can get cancer at any age, but the risk goes up with age. Nearly 9 out of 10 cancers are diagnosed in people ages 50 and older. Cancer can be found in people of all racial and ethnic groups, but the rate of cancer occurrence (called the incidence rate) varies from group to group.
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World Cancer Day is the only day on global health calendar where we can all unite and rally under the one banner of cancer in a positive and inspiring way.
Theme – 2019-2021
2019 marks the
launch of the 3-year ‘ I Am and I Will’ campaign. ‘I Am and I will’ is an empowering
call-to-action urging for personal commitment and represents the power of
individual action taken now to impact the future.
A3- year campaign
for impact
World Cancer Day
is a campaign built to resonate, inspire change and mobilize action long after
the day has passed.
A multi-year
campaign offers a chance to create long-lasting impact by increasing
public-facing exposure and engagement, more opportunities to build global
awareness and impact-driven action.
Few facts
Smoking is linked to 71% of lung cancer deaths, and
accounts for at least 22% of all cancer deaths.
Understanding
Cancer
Cell- Cell is the
smallest living unit of our body. Cells have built-in mechanism to be
healthy, and to correct errors. This happens like human experiences teach human
that standing in front of hungry tiger will lead to death, similarly genes have
certain level of experiences gathered in our DNA since we existed.
However, there
are certain factors which temper with our genetic codes- like smoking and
exposure to radiation. Cancer is the result of this code-error. Cell often
produce more copies of itself and they are gathered together and turns into
tumor or cancer.
If cells are not
malfunctioning- they know how many to multiply to run the body, and this is
controlled by the intelligence system of genes and some relevant genes and the
protein which attempt to resist such tumor growth.
The gene TP53,
which controls the cancer to happen is already identified.
The assumption- So basically
cells are not error proof. Many cells are in the body, so many more chances
will be an error to occur. Like our bones are made of different cells, eyes are
made of different cells, and so on. So every organ of human body is almost made
of different cells. As a result big bodies have more cells and there are more
chances for errors.
Elephant has more
mass, according to the written facts here, Elephant has more chances to get
cancer, but the question is, how are they not getting it?
While other heavy species like shark, cows and many more, but the surprise is- Mouse are more likely to get cancer than humans, and humans gets more cancer than elephants.
What is the fact?
While studying
the genome, many facts were observed, and one of them was- In the process of
evolution, animals such as humans, mice, mammoths have gathered a large number
of genetic information. Many genes stay active according to the other
combinations and traits we use them, The genes which are not used for long and
neither triggered they become junk DNA.
They stay as a
library of old book, while new information and new books are in the market.
However, they exist.
Elephant did wake
up their sleepy genes. That means one can understand it through simple example
like one got access to a particular book in old section of library to find the
cure. Elephants used their junk DNA, found the gene, and triggered it against
cancer. That’s how they are evolving, and less prone to cancer.
The study is
published by the Chicago Author, and the author found that the gene was LIF and
was woken up by anti cancer protein p53.
The elephant has
10 copies of LIF genes, and it acted against the damaged DNA cell which
provoked cancer.
This study can be
used in protection against cancer among humans as well.
