World Cancer Day 2025

Cancer: A diagnosis like no other?

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Cancer is more than just a #medical diagnosis—it’s a deeply personal matter. That’s why a people-centred approach to cancer care that fully integrates each individual’s unique needs, with compassion and empathy, leads to the best health outcomes.??

Because people are more. More than a diagnosis. More than a #disease. More than a patient. More than a caregiver.?

The emotional, physiological, psychological and financial impact of cancer makes it a diagnosis like no other, profoundly affecting an individual, a family, the workplace and employer, the community and society.?

One in two of us will receive a cancer diagnosis in our lives. The other 50% of us will become a caregiver.???

We know that 1 in 4 cancers are preventable with lifestyle and health behaviour changes.?

That’s why the UKIHCA, as the professional association for health coaching, is proud to support and participate in World Cancer Day, an international day observed every 4 February to raise awareness about #cancer, encourage its prevention, and mobilise action to address the global cancer epidemic.??

The theme for World Cancer Day 2025 is “United by Unique” and will explore different dimensions of people-centred cancer care and new ways of making a difference.???

Everyone has unique needs, unique perspectives, and a unique story to tell, yet people touched by cancer are united in a shared ambition to lower the cancer burden, to see cancer treated successfully, and to lead better lives with cancer.??

With these thoughts in mind, on World Cancer Day 2025 we are sharing these important resources:

Oncio - What is health coaching in cancer care?

Oncio’s aim is to provide high quality app-based resources for people with cancer, supporting best clinical practice and research in integrative oncology (IO). Oncio strongly believes that integrative oncology should be part of the standard of cancer care, and Oncio CIC has been created to support this mission.?

“As a consultant clinical oncologist, medical director and a professional health coach, I see health coaching as an integral part of integrative medicine and integrative oncology. It’s a uniquely self-empowering and valuable approach, supporting people – wherever they are in their cancer journey - to actively participate in their own care and to improve their health and wellbeing, with sustainable lifestyle choices that are important to them”. ?Dr Penny Kechagioglou, Co-Founder Oncio CIC & UKIHCA- Clinical Affairs Advisor.

Joining hands for Cancer across the Pond?

On World Cancer Day 2025, the Health Coaching Integrative Oncology Special Interest Group (SIG) at the Society of Integrative Oncology (SIO) and the British Society of Integrative Oncology are excited to be joining hands to improve access to professional health coaching for individuals facing or living with a cancer diagnosis.

The aim of the Special Interest Group is to highlight the essential and evidence-based role that health coaching plays within integrative oncology and to advance its integration within oncology.

The Group will be working on three cornerstone programmes:

·????? Enhancing health coaching awareness within integrative oncology

·????? Establishing health coaching advanced competencies in integrative oncology

·????? Creating pathways for health professionals to become certified in health coaching for cancer care, or to integrate health coaching skills into their practices.

For more information, please reach out to:

julie bach : Chair Health Coaching Special Interest Group (US)

Izabella Natrins : Chair-Elect Health Coaching Special Interest Group (UK)

UKIHCA Blog Posts -

Meet me where I am - Aga Kehinde , a Trauma Consultant, Cancer Nurse Specialist, and Health Empowerment Coach with over 23 years of experience in oncology, trauma-informed practices, and emotional well-being across public and charity sectors. She has developed transformative support models that integrate expertise from trauma, cancer care, psychology, and public health to address the holistic needs of individuals facing significant life challenges.

How can we help to strengthen ourselves when facing cancer? - Dr Rosy Daniel BSc MBBCh , Founder and Medical Director at Health Creation trained as a GP and then specialised in Integrative Healthcare. She was former Director of the Bristol Cancer Centre, now Penny Brohn Cancer Care from 1989 to 2000 at which point she dedicated her life to developing the health enhancing Health Creation Energy Management model in a determined effort to decrease preventable illnesses which is ruining lives, costing business billions and overwhelming the NHS.

PREKURE - The Power of Health Coaching – From Cancer Survivor to Mental Fitness & Cancer Coach. From her background in corporate leadership, Katherine Froggat has transitioned into the role of a Health Coach with a unique focus on mental fitness and cancer coaching. Her journey reflects the power of health coaching in transforming lives and preventing chronic illnesses through lifestyle interventions.?

UKIHCA 'Find Your Healthy' - The small things we do, day-in-day-out really do matter to our health and wellbeing. Making changes that nudge us toward better health can be easy with small, consistent steps which we can build up to the big, sustainable win: our better health!?

There are a wealth of resources in the Find Your Healthy section of our website, and of particular relevance on World Cancer Day are the resources to designed support a cancer diagnosis and those affected.

Macmillan Cancer Support tell us: ?

• Around 392,000 people are diagnosed with cancer each year, in the UK?

• On average, someone is diagnosed with cancer at least every 90 seconds in the UK?

• Each year, around 167,000 people die from cancer in the UK, an average of 460 people every day.??

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Cancer Research UK tell us that: ?

• Worldwide there will be 28 million new cases of cancer each year by 2040?

• UK incidence is ranked higher than three-quarters of Europe?

• UK incidence is ranked higher than 90% of the world?

• UK mortality is ranked higher than two-thirds of the world

• Lung, liver, stomach and bowel cancers have been the four most common causes of cancer death since 1975?

• 4 in 10 cancers are preventable.

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