Event 2024
Innovation in cancer reseach drives progress toward health equity
Event 2023
Integrating Diversity Advancing Research Achieving Equity
Event 2022
Support Research to Prevent Cancer and Catch it Early
Event 2021
Cancer Research works: Driving Progress Together
One of the main challenges in the fight against cancer is further developing and boosting cancer research as an essential part of slowing the progression of the disease and further improving survival rates and quality of life for those affected. Estimates show that cancer will be the leading cause of death in the coming years with an increase to 21.6 m.
Let’s team up for
cancer research
Because if cancer doesn’t care about
distance, neither do we.
With your support we can move towards a future without cancer
Attend our event
Attend our international event on research. Around September 24, all the international organizations that fight against cancer come together in an event to talk about the importance of continuing to investigate and of doing it all as a single team. Stay tuned!
Share on social media
You can show to the world your support for cancer research on social networks. Use the hashtag #WorldCancerResearchDay and share your testimony with the community!
Use the campaign materials
In addition, we provide you with some graphic materials to join the movement and celebrate World Cancer Reseach Day.
Organize an event
If you are an organisation or work in a research centre, organise your activity for that day. You can participate with any activity that you think is relevant to the importance of researching together and share it with us.
Become a supporting organization
If you would also like to support World Cancer Reseacrh Day contact us and become a supporting organization!
Sign the declaration
The World Declaration for Cancer Research is a call to citizens, entities, institutions, and leaders of all fields to join efforts to promote research. Together, we aim to improve survival rates, quality of life and reduce the number of people who develop cancer. Sign the World Declaration for Cancer and show your support!
The importance of the
fight against cancer
01. The social impact of cancer
It is estimated that by 2030 cancer will be the leading cause of death worldwide with new cases expected to increase to 21.6 million each year. According to the GLOBOCAN report, in 2012 there were 14 million new cases diagnosed and 8.2 million cancer-related deaths worldwide
02. Economic impact of cancer
Life years and productivity loss, together with disabilities resulting from cancer account for the largest economic cost on a global scale, compared to other causes of death including infectious diseases.
03. Importance of cancer research
One of the most important areas is to support and promote research on the causes, prevention and early detection of cancer as a key element in controlling the disease. This will lead us towards the discovery of a cure for cancer or transforming the disease into a chronic illness.
04. Research is a long-distance run
Research is a continous work and the results will be noticeable mostly in the long term. For this reason, it is imperative not to stop on the way and keep on funding research to get more advances in the near future. Step by step, we obtain promising results that will contribute to the end of cancer disease, or make it chronic to improve the quality life and increase life expectancy of cancer pacient.