Israel Cancer Association - Annual Report 2024

Israel Cancer Association // Annual Report 2024

Smoking Prevention Outreach in Local Authorities, Organizations, and Companies In preparation for World No Tobacco Day, a preparatory meeting was held with health coordinators in local authorities. Information materials were sent to many local authorities, organizations, and government ministries, and training sessions and lectures on smoking prevention were conducted for various audiences. For example: a webinar for medical teams on behalf of the Ministry of Health on "The power of the medical team in the patient's smoking cessation journey".

Petition to the Supreme Court against the Israel Airports Authority In June, the ICA filed a petition to the Supreme Court demanding conditional orders for the immediate and complete cancellation of the tax exemption for tobacco products entering Israel. According to the ICA: "This is a life-threatening subsidy that creates a severe distortion with no substantive justification. The damage caused by duty-free cigarettes is identical to the damage of cigarettes anywhere else, with the same devastating consequences." The petition was filed by S. Horowitz & Co . law firm.

The Israel Cancer Association Skin Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Sunsmart® Activity

Skin cancer early detection and awareness week was held for the 32nd time this year from June 24-30. The purpose of the campaign is to raise the public's awareness of the importance of skin cancer early detection and prevention. Like every year, skin cancer awareness week is held in collaboration with Clalit, Maccabi, Meuhedet and Leumit HMOs, with hundreds of check-up clinics open to the public free of charge across Israel, manned by dermatologists and plastic surgeons, who perform skin cancer and melanoma early detection examinations that can save lives.

According to the Ministry of Health, in 2020, 1,675 new patients were diagnosed with skin melanoma. A decisive majority of 91.9% of the patients were diagnosed with an early-stage tumor. In an international comparison in descending order from the country with the highest rate to the lowest in 2020, Israel ranked 23rd among the 30 countries with the highest incidence rates (number of cases per 100,000 residents) in the world, and in the last place among the 30 countries with the highest mortality rates in the world, meaning Israel has the lowest mortality rates.

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