Activities
World Cancer Day observed today |  | 
Chandigarh: 4 Feb 2010:- Burning Brain Society and Tobacco Free India Coalition observed world cancer day today by organising an awareness camp here today. Hemant Goswami informed that according to WHO statistics 70 percent deaths occurred due to Cancer every year globally. Goswami informed that "The motive behind to celebrate World Cancer Day is to plan the strategy against cancer and how it could be controlled."
80 pc cancer in males is due to tobacco use: Doc | |
Chandigarh: February 05, 2007:- ON the occasion of World Cancer Day, the NGO, Burning Brain Society (BBS), today launched a year-long cancer prevention campaign titled ‘Today’s children, Tomorrow’s world’. The initiative aims to draw attention to cancer as a global health problem and emphasise on its prevention. Hemant Goswami, chairperson of BSS, said, according to WHO estimates, 7.6 million people died of cancer in 2005 and 84 million people will die between 2005 and 2015 if proper action is not taken.
NGOs show interest in Chandigarh's campaign against smoking | |
Chandigarh: June 17, 2007 : Several non-government organisations (NGOs) from different states have shown interest in Chandigarh administration's efforts to make the city smoke-free by July. NGOs from Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi desire to launch similar smoke-free campaigns in their states. "We are going to make our villages smoke-free too just like Chandigarh," an NGO worker, Sheetal, from Theog district in Himachal Pradesh, said here Sunday.
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