Cancer is a process of uncontrolled growth and spread of cells, it can appear almost anywhere in the body. The tumor tends to invade surrounding tissue and can metastasize to distant sites. Many cancers could be prevented by avoiding exposure to common risk factors such as smoke. In Cuba, holding a prophylactic work for people's knowledge and awareness of this disease, experts can be cured by surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy, especially if detected at an early stage.
The negative actions as tobacco,alcoholic, physical inactivity, high blood pressure, unhealthy diet, abnormal blood lipids and obesity affect the health and also contribute to the onset of discomfort.
The world's population suffer and die every day from this disease, that´s why the World Day Against Cancer is an initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) held on February 4th since 2002, and proposes among its objectives to achieve greater awareness in the population about this disease and risk factors, contribute to a better quality of patients life.
Nowdays is the main mortality cause worldwide. Attributed more than eight million deaths, the more common men cancers are: lung, stomach, liver, colorectal, esophagus and prostate, while in women the breast, lung, stomach, colorectal and cervical cancer, in that order, while Cuba disclosed the heartening news to have developed the first world therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer, one of the most common worldwide and the highest incidence among smokers.
Smoking is the leading preventable cause of cancer worldwide.
