Cancer awareness day is observed in India every year on November 7 to create awareness on one of the deadly diseases mankind is struggling against. India is the first country in the world to have initiated ‘National Cancer Awareness Day’ on 7th November which happens to be the birthday of Madame Marie Curie, the Nobel Laureate who discovered radioactivity.
There is a need to create cancer awareness in the country because the prevalence of the deadly disease seems to be increasing.