World Cancer Day 2025: Close the Cancer Care Gap
Overview
Close the cancer care gap: uniting our voices and taking action
Everyone deserves access to cancer care, but they know that many people who seek cancer care hit barriers at every turn. Income, education, geographical location and discrimination based on ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability and lifestyle are just a few of the factors that can negatively affect care. This is the equality gap – and it’s costing lives.
Macmillan’s Cancer Experience Panel in Northern Ireland want to play their part in closing the cancer care gap and have launched their application process for World Cancer Day 2025
Theme: Close the cancer care gap
Who can apply:
Any organisation or group can apply for up to £3,000 to enable them to provide a showcase to highlight the impact of inequality in cancer care and/or to demonstrate what they are doing to close the cancer care gap and the outcomes for people living with cancer.
The 8 areas of inequality the panel are seeking to highlight are:
Applicants must choose at least 1 category per application.
- Gender discrimination
- Barriers for minority populations
- Rural/Urban divide
- Age discrimination
- Refugee status
- Homophobia/Transphobia
- Disability
- Poverty/Socioeconomic status
More information on each area can be found here: https://www.worldcancerday.org/close-care-gap
What should a showcase look like?
Applicants can use any medium to demonstrate the impact of inequality in cancer care/what they are doing to close the gap. All successful applicants are responsible for transporting and assembling their showcase on the day of the final event.
When and where will the final showcases take place?
All successful applicants will have the opportunity to attend a ‘lunch and learn’ event during the week of World Cancer Day 2025 (3 – 7 February) where they will present their showcase and take part in discussions with community organisations, cancer professionals and decision makers with the theme: