{"id":28373,"date":"2026-02-04T06:17:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=28373"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:20:21","slug":"world-cancer-day-who-urges-early-detection-to-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/02\/world-cancer-day-who-urges-early-detection-to-save-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cancer Day: WHO urges early detection to save lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Afghanistan office of the World Health Organization said it continues to support people with cancer in Afghanistan on World Cancer Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WHO announced in a statement on Wednesday, February 4, on their X account that even small actions to prevent cancer can save lives.<\/p>\n<p>The organization said it focuses on early detection, raising awareness, effective treatment, and compassionate care for people affected by cancer.<\/p>\n<p>WHO also reported that nearly 40% of cancer cases in 2022, which affected 7.1 million people, were linked to preventable factors.<\/p>\n<p>The organization added that quitting smoking, eating healthy, exercising, using clean energy, and getting vaccines can help reduce the risk of cancer.<\/p>\n<p>World Cancer Day was established on February 4, 2000, by the Union for International Cancer Control to raise awareness about cancer and encourage prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO announced in a statement on Wednesday, February 4, on their X account that even small actions to prevent cancer can save lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,218],"tags":[452,1040,1466],"class_list":["post-28373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-health","tag-who","tag-cancer","tag-cancer-day"],"views":36,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28374,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28373\/revisions\/28374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}