Today, 4th of February, World Cancer Day is commemorated. For this reason, the Confederació Mundial de Penyes joins once again the “All Against Cancer” manifesto, promoted by the Spanish Association Against Cancer with the aim of raising awareness and mobilizing society to contribute resources and capabilities to the fight against this disease.
Throughout the year, the Confederació Mundial de Penyes, its regional Federations, and the more than 1,250 Barça penyes that make up our community organize and/or collaborate in charitable initiatives aimed at cancer research and its different types. The penyes also collaborate in promoting and disseminating awareness campaigns against cancer to ensure they reach as many people as possible.
We attach the “All Against Cancer” manifesto:
In 2030, one out of every two men and one out of every three women will have cancer. In Spain, 32 new cases are diagnosed every hour, and it is the second cause of death in our country. The survival rate has stagnated in recent years and stands at 51%, with some types of cancer being much lower.
It is necessary to multiply the effort in the fight against cancer if we want these figures to change.
‘All Against Cancer’ aims to raise awareness and mobilise Spanish society about the importance of pooling the resources and capabilities of everyone around a major programme of action against cancer, increasing the resources available for prevention, research, care and dissemination projects.
‘All Against Cancer’ has been declared an Event of Exceptional Public Interest (2022-2024) by the Spanish Government.
It is time to take the first step to change the figures, ‘All Against Cancer’ has a goal: to achieve 70% cancer survival in Spain by 2030.
For all these reasons, the signatories of this manifesto join forces to promote the ‘All Against Cancer’ project and thus achieve the following challenges:
1- Dissemination: To make cancer and its impact on society visible, seeking social mobilisation around the cause of cancer.
2- Prevention: To increase social awareness of cancer prevention and early detection, encouraging the adoption of healthy lifestyle habits and participation in early detection programmes by society.
3- Care: To increase care for patients and their families to mitigate and alleviate clinical and non-clinical needs.
4- Research: increase resources allocated to cancer research to increase the cancer survival rate, seeking excellence and ease of transfer, so that the results reach the patient.
What we do today can change our tomorrow.
‘All Against Cancer’
From the Confederació Mundial de Penyes, we encourage you to join this manifesto in order to combine the greatest possible efforts towards achieving our shared goal in the fight against cancer.
