#WorldCancerDay Webinar: Accelerate progress to reduce cancer burden
Channel: CNS
Date: 2018-02-03

World Cancer Day 2018 webinar presents an online discourse on how to accelerate progress towards reducing global cancer burden. Governments have committed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and reducing premature mortality due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) by one-third by 2030, is among these targets. What more can we do to accelerate progress towards these goals and targets, and reducing global cancer burden? It also raised the very neglected issue of palliative care in most countries and do hope UN High Level Meeting on NCDs will generate stronger response to save lives from cancer.

PANEL OF EXPERTS

* THUY KHUC-BILON, World Cancer Day Campaign Manager at UICC (Union for International Cancer Control)

* Dr SAUNTHARI SOMASUNDARAM, Chairperson of World Cancer Congress 2018 Host committee, board member of UICC (Union for International Cancer Control), President and Medical Director of National Cancer Society of Malaysia; board member of ASEAN NCD Alliance

* Dr SURYA KANT, President of National College of Chest Physicians; Past President of Indian Chest Society; President of Indian Medical Association (Lko), and Professor and Head, Department of Respiratory Medicine, King George's Medical University (KGMU)

* SHOBHA WARRIER, senior journalist, editor and author

* Dr VISMAY SHARMA, dental surgeon and MPH, (daughter of Dr Veena Sharma)

MODERATORS:
* Ashok Ramsarup, International award winning journalist and former Senior Producer, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Durban, South Africa

* Shobha Shukla, Managing Editor, CNS (Citizen News Service)
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2018 #WorldCancerDay webinar is humbly dedicated to late Dr Veena Sharma, a researcher who worked in India's premier research institute (Central Drug Research Institute - CDRI), and carried out studies on some aspects of chemotherapy and chemoprophylaxis in experimental Leishmaniasis, that resulted in development of new screening technique and several compound were screened for therapeutic activities. She was also a senior noted educationist who served as a distinguished teacher as well as Principal and Vice-Principal of several schools and colleges, and spearheaded campaign against one of the major risk factors for cancers: tobacco. She bravely fought against cancer although unfortunately we lost her on 26 June 2014. We celebrate the positivity and inspiration with which she lived her life, and instilled similar values and virtues in the lives she touched.

Thanks

CNS Webinars Team
Email: webinar@citizen-news.org

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