News 09 February 2016 World Cancer Day 2016 was a great success A big thank you to all of you for your help and support Header Paragraph We were really impressed and thrilled to see all the activities that took place on and around World Cancer Day 2016. We were very pleased with the excellent pick up of the "We can. I can." theme and the very creative "Talking Hands" submissions which featured on the World Cancer Day's Wall of Support. It was a record breaking World Cancer Day and we are still taking stock of all the activities and events that took place around the world, but we wanted to share some preliminary highlights with you here below. 820 activities in 129 countries 400k tweets 3.5m engagements on Facebook 9k #WeCanICan Instagram posts 10k 'Talking hands' photos 16k views of the 'We can. I can.' video 1,076 Thunderclap supporters TALKING about World Cancer Day UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon BBC / CNN / Huffington Post TEDTalks 11 Ministries of Health The White House We would like to acknowledge the contribution of the World Cancer Day Advisory Group, who played an integral role in shaping this year's campaign. We would like to express our thanks once again to all those that took part in the day. Your collective time and energy really made a difference. The World Cancer Day Team and our CEO, Cary Adams Tags World Cancer Day Awareness WCD WCD2016 Last update Friday 07 June 2019 Share this page