POLAND - PRIMARY PREVENTION OF CANCER THROUGH HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE. TOBACCO CONTROL
POLAND - PRIMARY PREVENTION OF CANCER THROUGH HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE. TOBACCO CONTROL.
• From the 1st of February in Poland (Lodz) will begin the study, designed to predict the participants in prevention - Tobacco Control Programs. Persons eligible for a group high risk for lung cancer in people aged 40-65 years and smoking cigarettes for over 20 years.
• The project will take 12 month.
In Poland is a need for a good with instruments, comprehensive, multi-faceted cancer control programs that will allow the people of Poland to achieve such monitoring of cancer that exists in Western Europe. The special edition, Oncology in Clinical Practice from September, 2010, calls that in Poland is an urgent need for rapid implementation of effective, intensive information campaigns, promoting healthy lifestyles and the benefits resulting from participation in the offer State program prevention and screening.
Despite the remarkable advances in medical science and research, cancer still claims the lives of close to eight million people each year. Without significant improvement, over 17 million people per year will die from cancer by 2030.
The main objective of the project will be:
• The Aims of Science
• Studies research to predict the participants in prevention programs
• Increased efforts towards a global partnership for accession smoke-free
• Appeal to the public, governmental and nongovernmental organizations – to unite with the global partner for calling to a world free from tobacco smoke
• Improving the education of Polish society in the prevention and early detection of cancer
• Raise awareness of the global cancer epidemic among individuals who have the potential to mobilize change and make cancer a global health priority.
“This work has been supported by a grant received from UICC under
“UICC cancer prevention campaign”