"Cancer is a word, not a sentence."

 

WHY PEOPLE ARE SO AFRAID ABOUT CANCER?

Cancer is the second-leading cause of death worldwide.

10 million people die from cancer every year.

Is this the real reason behind the fear?

Yes, with no doubt. But the root cause of the fear should be LACK OF AWARENESS and the LACK OF KNOWLEDGE regarding the chronic disease.

World Cancer day is celebrated on 4 February every year. A great initiative of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). It is done to raise awareness worldwide and educate people to come together and help your near and dears by supporting them instead of stop calling and visiting out of fear.

There are many causes of cancer, and some of them are preventable also. Preventable risk factors for cancer include:

• Heavy alcohol consumption
•  Smoking
•  Excess body weight
• Physical inactivity
•  Poor nutrition

How can you support your friends or family member if they get diagnosed with cancer?

What actually people do is show some sympathy and then stop visiting their houses. Cancer is not a disease which can spread like viral.

In real mean, there are no rules that how we should react to such things but all we can do is to make the person happy by different ways. Keep it simple. Make your own self strong first. Getting news of someone has cancer can be difficult news to hear. Take time to cope up with your own emotions. Although each person with cancer have different state of mind. So, one should make plans for outing, laugh together, make time for calls, video calls.

The most important thing is to treat them the same way. Talk about the things other than cancer. Listen music or dance together, listen to their stories, go for walk together, play games and many more things to do.

Remember that often little things matter the most.

Continuing relations and regular activities after a cancer diagnosis is the best way in healing process. Do not forget that they need encouragement and support after cancer treatment has finished. As, they need to start a “Normal Life” again.