WORLD
Cancer Day 2019 was commemorated with an awareness raising event and physical
exercise ceremony at Nay Pyi Taw’s Wunna Theikdi Stadium (B) yesterday morning.
Dr.
Mya Lay Sein, Deputy Minister for Health and Sports, delivered the opening
speech. She first said the ceremony marks World Cancer Day 2019-2021, with
methods to prevent and treat cancer put into practice in 2008. The primary goal
of World Cancer Day is to implement early preventive measures and significantly
reduce death caused by cancer. Every year, about 9.6 per cent of the global
population dies from cancer. The Deputy Minister said we must educate ourselves
to figure the first signs of cancer. She encourages the two main methods to
reduce risk of cancer: regular 30-minute walks every day and reducing stress.
She said the old adage ‘prevention is better than cure’ truly applies in this
context and urged everyone to perform daily physical exercise to reduce stress
and ward off cancer.
Next,
Dr. Khin Khin Nwe, an oncologist from Nay Pyi Taw 1,000-bed General Hospital,
led the cancer awareness program. She said the cancer rate in Myanmar has been
increasing recently, with men developing oral cancer from excessive betel nut
consumption, in addition to lung cancer, and head cancer the most, and women
developing breast cancer and endometrial cancer the most.
Afterwards,
staff from the Department of Sport and Physical Education and the Ministry of
Health and Sports engaged in a collective physical fitness dance.
According
to the official website of World Cancer Day: 2019 marks the launch of the
3-year ‘I Am and I Will’ campaign. ‘I Am and I Will’ is an empowering
call-to-action urging for personal commitment and represents the power of
individual action taken now to impact the future.
MNA
(Translated
by Zaw Htet Oo)
Photo:MNA
Ref:
The Global New Light of Myanmar
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