The theme for this year's World Cancer Day is Closing the Care Gap. The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) has applied an equity lens to ensure all Canadians have access to cancer screening, treatment, and prevention as these may be different depending on where you live. CPAC wants to change that to ensure we all have similar access.

World Cancer Day takes place every year on February 4 and is a key international awareness day that unites the world in the fight against cancer.

Created in 2000 and coordinated by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), the theme of World Cancer Day 2024 is  “Close the Care Gap,” focusing on commitments to prioritize cancer, create innovative strategies designed to address inequity, and invest our resources to achieve a just and cancer-free world.