Stop Cancer: The awareness campaign

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This awareness campaign is designed to help educate the public about specific preventable cancers. You are more likely to survive cancer if you spot it at an early stage. Just take time today to check your body.

Cancer is a diseases which involves abnormal cell growth in the human body which forms a neoplasm. This neoplasm or tumor is a group of cells that have undergone unregulated growth in the body.

Cancer is a leading cause of death all around the world. It stated that cancer is projected to kill 13 million people annually by 2030. There is a misperception in Africa that cancer is not an “African problem” little did they know that the risk of dying from the many forms of cancer is much higher in Africa than in developed countries. Facts say that “the mortality rate of cancer is around 80% in African countries”. This is as a result of lack of treatment facilities and programs for education, and prevention processes.

In children for instance, about 15,270 children under 19 years were diagnosed with cancer and around 1,790 of this children will die of the disease see

Cancer could come in form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia Many cancer can be prevented by not drinking excessive alcohols, avoidance of smoking, eating plenty of vegetables, vaccination against certain infectious diseases, maintaining good weight, exposure to much sunlight, and more.
Smoking alone causes 90% of lung cancer, and also Cancer of the larynx, neck, stomach, bladder, kidney, esophagus and pancreas.

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Cancer Signs

Talk to a doctor if you notice anything unusual in your body. Cancer signs you should look out for:

1. Any abnormal growth or swelling
2. Abnormal bleeding; were your coughing is accompanied with blood
3. Loss of weight. When I say loss of weight I don’t mean small weight changes but big weight loss that is not related to dieting.
4. Continuous body pain (contact your doctor about it)
5. Difficulty in swallowing, food indigestion or heartburn happening a lot and painful.
6. Ulcer in the mouth or tongue for a lengthy period
7. Changes in your bowel or bladder habits
8. Changes in your breast

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Preventive Measures

The active measures used in decreasing cancer risk. Majority of cancer cases are said to be due to environmental factors, of which if this environmental factors are adequately controllable, cancer is generally preventable. A list of preventive measures of cancer is listed below:

o Go for medications
o Be vaccinated as to prevent infection from some carcinogenic viruses.
o Constantly Screening the body
o Dietary: that is ingesting good and balanced diet.
And more!

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Sources:

1. https://www.cancer.ie/reduce-your-risk/health-education/cancer-awareness-campaign
2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/cancer
3. https://.cancer.ie/center-information/cancer-types?utm_source=how-we-can-help&utm_medium=webpage&utm_Campaign=how%20can%20-we%20help#sthash.C1ZAC8Cw.bkQbM3ak.dphs

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