Posted: | January 22, 2016 03:58 PM |
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From: | Senator Rob Teplitz |
To: | All Senate members |
Subject: | Resolution – Recognizing “World Cancer Day” in Pennsylvania |
In the near future, I will be introducing a resolution recognizing February 4, 2016 as “World Cancer Day.” “World Cancer Day” was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to support the goals of the World Cancer Declaration, written in 2008, to significantly reduce illness and death caused by cancer by the year 2020. The World Health Organization reports that cancers are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with approximately 8.2 million cancer-related deaths in 2012. It is expected that annual cancer cases will rise from 14 million in 2012 to 22 million within the next two decades I hope you will join me in co-sponsoring this resolution recognizing February 4, 2016 as “World Cancer Day” to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. |
Introduced as SR274