World Cancer Day and Lovepink Indonesia, Wonderful Community Supporting Breast Cancer Patients, Survivors and More

World Cancer Day 2021World Cancer Day 2021 is here!Every February 4th, the world commemorates the World Cancer Day. Cancer, has long been known as one of the scariest diseases. Up til now, statistic shows that approximately 9.6 million people passed away due to cancer each year. Four millions among them prematurely decease with the age ranging 30 - 69 years. We see more and younger victims affected by cancer. With this daunting phenomenon, we need to continue raising awareness about the danger of cancer and what we can do to fight it back...

#WeTalkAboutCancer: Chemotherapy and its impacts

Disclaimer: this is a repost of my previous note on World Cancer Day  IT'S THE WORLD CANCER DAY! Every 4th of February, we salute those surviving cancers, cheer those fighting it and light the memories of those who have lost their lives to cancer. Last year, we had a special event for World Cancer Day 2016 at the United Nations But this year, I haven't seen one at the UN. I have come across more infographic about cancer from worldcancerday.com. From the top 5 most frequent cancers, breast cancer stays at no. 2 after lung cancer.  Moreover,...

WW: World Cancer Day 2019 in Jakarta, Indonesia

I just joined the commemoration of the  World Cancer Day 2019 in Jakarta, Indonesia, last weekend. Us from Yayasan Kanker Indonesia I know that the World Cancer Day itself is celebrated every February 4th, but apparently we celebrated it a bit later than that. Many survivors, doctors, oncologists, medical personnel, as well as families and friends whose life have been touched by cancer have gathered that Sunday. All of us were wearing costumes with specific colors, reflecting 10 colors of cancer awareness ribbons. I joined Yayasan...

World Cancer Day 2016 at the United Nations

World Cancer Day is celebrated every February 4 since 2005. Well, perhaps celebrate is not really the word.  We mark the day as the World Cancer Day and perhaps, without trying to be so bitter, nothing is to celebrate once you have or being touched by cancer in various ways. But for sure, the spirit to fight cancer should be celebrated, in a way that we should take all necessary actions and changes to fight it. And the United Nations is surely taking its part in our global fight against cancer.  Right on the D-day, February...