Apollo cancer centers and cure foundation, hosted ‘pedal to battle’ cyclothon to commemorate world cancer day 2023, with the theme ‘unite our voices and take action’, as part of the campaign being run by the union for international cancer control, today at the apollo cancer centers, jubilee hills.
The riders were felicitated by american born tollywood diva sreeleela and dr vijay anand reddy, director, apollo cancer centre, Hyderabad. The cyclothon was flagged off at apollo cancer centres, jubilee hills, the bicycle riders went up to whisper valley and returned to apollo cancer centres, jubilee hills. The participants sensitized the public on cancer prevention and early detection. Dr Vijay Karan reddy, consultant oncologist, apollo cancer Centre, anchored the show.
Every year 4th Feb is dedicated to spreading cancer awareness and is marked as world cancer day. The theme of this world cancer day is to unite our voices and take action which is part of a 3-year campaign started by uicc (union for international cancer control) called close the care gap. It’s a plea for all of us to raise our voices against cancer with a united force and take things into our own hands.
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“Awareness is the panacea to prevention and early detection of cancer. Though the rising incidence of cancer is alarming, cancer curable is reassuring. We need to empower the populace with information on prevention and early detection, which itself will help stem the rise in cases” says dr sangita reddy.
Ms Sreeleela said, “we are all here because it’s world cancer day, to spread awareness about cancer, everyone knows it exists, but people don’t understand how serious it is. I am here to sensitise how important early detection of cancer is. We spend time on several frivolous things, including going through WhatsApp, and social media, we watch thousands of feeds and millions of statuses, but how many of them are important and productive for us?
I want and expect all of you to put up one story, one post or whatever, be it on social media or WhatsApp about cancer. Because a lot of people only get to know about it when it’s very very late.
Two of my grandmothers were diagnosed of cancer and cured. As dr vijay anand reddy rightly said, early detection is equivalent to a cure. So don’t make it too late. People don’t listen to their bodies these days, because they are too busy with the outside world.
So I urge you all to take it seriously because small things like time to time getting yourself checked, woman mammography above the age of forty for breast cancer, HPV vaccination for cervical cancers, and staying away from high-risk factors like smoking, it’s these small things we need to stop. Treat your body like a temple, know what you consume, know how you take care of it.”
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