April is Nutrition and Lifestyle related Cancer Awareness Month
We also heard from Dorothy
Du Plooy - Executive Manager for the CANSA
Southern Business Unit. We were talking about Nutrition and Lifestyle
related Cancer Awareness Month. It is said that Cancer is a leading cause of
death around the world. The World Health Organisation estimates that 84 million
people will die of cancer between 2005 and 2015 without intervention. CANSA
believes it’s important to make people aware of the risk factors and ways to
reduce the cancer risk since more than 30% of cancers can be prevented. They
also believe that due to fear and ignorance cancer becomes a bigger problem
than it needs to be as many South Africans have preconceived ideas of what
cancer is and whom it affects. One of the biggest myths is that cancer is a
death sentence which in actual fact is not. For further information you can
contact CANSA on (021) 689 5347 or visit www.cansa.org.za
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