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World Cancer Day activities in Brazil

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UICC member, INCA, published the “Executive Summary - Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention in Brazil – Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity”, a comprehensive handbook to raise cancer awareness and healthy lifesytles.  

 

INCA (National Cancer Institute - Brazil)

On World Cancer Day, INCA disclosed a Brazilian publication in Portuguese entitled “Executive Summary - Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention in Brazil – Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity”. Published by the National Cancer Institute of Brazil in collaboration with the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), it is based on the English edition of Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention, published by WCRF and AICR. This publication provides advice and guidance on what can be done to influence and change the lifestyle choices that people make, as they relate to their risk of cancer. Recommendations are as practical and applicable as possible and are addressed to actors - those people who make decision or policy in relevant areas - groups of policy-makers and decision-takers at all levels, from national to local.

 

Also to celebrate the World Cancer Day in Brazil on February 4th, a ceremony was held at the National Cancer Institute of Brazil with keynote speeches and presentations of the National Cancer Institute director general Luiz Antonio Santini and one of the main Brazilian edition coordinators, Geoffrey Cannon.

 

A special layout for the Institute´s portal and intranet were also developed to reinforce the celebrations of the World Cancer Day.

 

Centro de Oncologia e hematologia de Mossoro 

A programme for early diagnosis of childhood cancer exists since 2003. It reaches out to the community, health professionals and university students to teach them the signs and symptoms of childhood cancer, how to prevent it and how to reach the Specialised Treatment Centre quickly. Information about this programme was given on television, on the radio, on the internet, at lectures, and through pamphlets. 

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