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Grab a buddy and take part in a 5 km event for CANSA to highlight World Cancer Day…
Read morePublished: 30 January 2023
Updated: 1 February 2023
Categories: CANSA Cape Metro Care Centre, Fundraising Events & Projects, World Cancer Day - 4 Feb
Support CANSA Cape Metro Tel: 021 689 5347 Purpose of Telethon CANSA is having a telethon to raise funds towards our 8 Care Homes situated country-wide. Because rural districts don’t have oncology clinics, cancer patients living there have to move to unfamiliar and often distant bigger centres for up to six weeks to receive life-saving […]
Read morePublished: 23 November 2022
Updated: 23 November 2022
Categories: CANSA Cape Metro Care Centre, CANSA Western Cape, Fundraising Events & Projects
CANSA Cape Metro hosted a workshop with the Traditional Healers Forum Members as part of World No Tobacco Day on the 30th May 2014. CANSA is part of The Tobacco Task Team of the Western Cape. Dorothy du Plooy, CANSA’s Executive Manager of the Southern Business Unit, presented the dangers of snuff and other smokeless […]
Read morePublished: 14 July 2014
Updated: 18 August 2014
Categories: CANSA Cape Metro Care Centre
CANSA asked the 2014 4th year student Block at the Varsity College, Cape Town, to do a study on the knowledge, beliefs and perceptions on Tobacco, as 2014 World No Tobacco Day focussed on youth. They presented their findings and then proceeded to develop a health promotion activity at the College to raise awareness on Tobacco related […]
Read morePublished: 23 June 2014
Updated: 23 March 2015
Categories: CANSA Cape Metro Care Centre, No-Tobacco Campaign
Hubbly Bubbly: Masquerading the Dangers 18 November 2013 – It’s a centuries-old Eastern practice that’s gained worldwide acceptance in recent years. But the water filter and fruity flavours of the hookah pipe, or hubbly bubbly, mask a toxic cocktail of compounds. These are nicotine, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, arsenic, and lead. Insufficient knowledge about the […]
Read morePublished: 10 January 2014
Updated: 9 March 2021
Categories: CANSA Cape Metro Care Centre, CANSA on the Move for the Youth, No-Tobacco Campaign, Research Findings
How We Help You: Contact or visit us, we’d like to offer you & your loved ones care & support. 7 Dunbar Avenue, Athlone Tel: 021 689 5347 | 0800 22 66 22 | info@cansa.org.za Facebook Like CANSA Western Cape Facebook Page to keep up to date with our community education & screening programmes, care & support […]
Read morePublished: 26 May 2012
Updated: 3 November 2022
Categories: CANSA Cape Metro Care Centre
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