About World Cancer Day

• The World Cancer Day (WCD) is observed every year on 4 February across the world to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. 
• The theme (tagline) between 2016 and 2018 WCD is “We can. I can”.
•  It reflects on what everyone can do to raise awareness of cancer and asks to take pledge and action in fight against cancer. 
• Special three-year campaign for the World Cancer Day 2016-2018 seeks to explore how everyone- as individuals or as a collective – can do their part to reduce the burden of cancer globally. 
• The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) had instituted World Cancer Day (WCD in 2008 by formally writing the goals of the World Cancer Declaration. 
• The primary goal of observing the day is to reduce illness and death caused by it by 2020. 
• The origin of the day can be traced to 2000 at the first World Summit Against Cancer, which was held in Paris, France. UICC:
•  It is Geneva based leading international non-governmental organisation (NGO) founded in 1933. Its purpose is to help the global health community to accelerate the fight against cancer.
•  It has a membership of over 800 organisations spread across 155 countries.