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Alicante reaffirms its commitment to the fight against cancer: 'You are not alone'

Alicante reaffirms its commitment to the fight against cancer: 'You are not alone'

The City Council organises a commemorative event for World Cancer Day | The province recorded over 12,000 new cases last year

Pau Sellés

Alicante

Martes, 4 de febrero 2025, 13:36

"You are not alone, we are all involved and we demand more prevention, more early diagnosis, more healthcare, and more support for the patient and their family." This was the message delivered by the Mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcala, at the event organised by the City Council to commemorate World Cancer Day.

During this commemorative event, held in the City Hall square, Barcala emphasised the importance of the work done by the AECC and other cancer associations, as their efforts and demands "bear fruit and have achieved greater awareness, more prevention, more early diagnosis, better treatments, and higher recovery rates."

The mayor also congratulated research teams, institutions, public administrations, and all those who, through public-private collaboration, make their resources available to work on prevention and diagnosis. "We are all essential to achieve the ultimate goal, which is the cure for cancer," he concluded.

The disease in numbers

The president of the Spanish Association Against Cancer in Alicante, Fermín Crespo, read a manifesto highlighting that cancer is "one of the socio-health problems facing Spain and the world." In 2024, a total of 290,411 people were diagnosed with cancer in Spain and 12,081 in the province of Alicante, according to data provided by Crespo, who projected that by 2030 there will be 317,000 new cancer cases in Spain, equating to one diagnosis every 1.8 minutes.

To tackle these figures, on World Cancer Day 2025, the AECC and 23 other entities have launched the first open data space on cancer, 'More Cancer Data', which organises key indicators around the cancer patient's journey, from health promotion, primary prevention, early detection, diagnosis, healthcare, follow-up, and even end-of-life care.

Crespo stated, "The lack of an integral and global model of cancer knowledge, the difficulty of accessing data, or the lack of homogeneity in these data hinder the development of effective health strategies, which would result in higher survival rates and quality of life for patients."

Therefore, "cancer entities demand prioritising data collection and making it accessible, we advocate for the role of civil society in creating an ecosystem of applied social research in cancer, and we call for the creation of a joint coordination commission," highlighted the president of the AECC in Alicante. "We need everyone's commitment to surpass 70% survival by 2030," he noted.

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