The annual Globe-a-thon to End Women’s Cancer campaign is on again and everyone has been invited to join in.
The PNG Cancer Foundation made an official invite alongside campaign partner, the Pacific International Hospital, in Port Moresby on Tuesday.
The campaign is the world’s first international movement committed to raising awareness and expanding research on gynaecologic cancers.
On September 25th, thousands across the globe will be hosting events to help raise awareness of the often silent and deadly gynaecologic cancers.
Cancer Foundation CEO, Dadi Toka Jnr, said monitoring and evaluation has become an important part of their advocacy campaign, measuring how much people know now about cancer today, than before.
He said they’ve spoken to a large number of people, especially women, but need more finance to cover the rest of the country – to engage with people face to face and ensure the message of cancer is absorbed and understood.
National statistics have shown that an estimated 1,500 women die each year from cervical cancer in PNG.
Today, the message was to get everyone involved in the Globe-a-thon campaign in order to learn more about these diseases because it affects everyone directly and indirectly.
PIH CEO Colonel Sandeep Shaligram said PIH has already started seeing cancer patients with the recent establishment of its chemotherapy facilities and it was only fitting to support the work of the Cancer Foundation.
The Globe-a-thon will start at the PIH hospital, down the hill and onto Taurama towards Murray Barracks; around the roundabout on the Hubert Murray Highway and then back onto Taurama road towards Port Moresby General Hospital and return to PIH.