 Health officials, oncologists, cancer organizations, cancer survivors and other individuals will join together in observing World Cancer Day on February 4th under the theme, Closing the K-Gap. World Cancer Day is commemorated with the aim of creating awareness centered around identifying and addressing the barriers that exist in people accessing quality cancer care. Consultants on colleges at the Millennium Heights Medical Complex, Dr. Owen Gabriel, placed great emphasis on ensuring there is access to quality cancer care such as screening, early detection and treatment for everyone. From the standpoint of governments and NGOs, it is important that we have those facilities and services available like mammograms that are available to the population at risk, free at charge, as well as the availability of pap smears, prostate examinations and so on. Two populations at risk. So we need to have that within our primary healthcare setting, as well as our secondary healthcare setting so that those patients who are diagnosed early can be treated adequately. President of Paces of Cancer Sinclocio, Dorothy Phillips, highlighted what her future hopes are for closing the cancer care gap in Sinclocio. In the UK, every cancer person that's diagnosed, they do gene sequencing on that person where they could match up the person's genes with all the modalities and all the drugs for the person's cancer and whichever has the higher percentage, that is what is being used for that person. But in Sinclocio, we are not nowhere close to be doing gene sequencing right here as yet. So that is one of the very important things I would like to see brought into Sinclocio in order to close the care gap and I would like it to be for everybody, not just privately but in the public sector also. Dr. Owen Gabriel also called on individuals to play their part and to do the necessary screening for cancer. I think it is important that every individual becomes cognisant of whatever risk factors they may have as individuals, as part of a family and as part of the environment within which they work. For example, we know that prostate cancer can be inherited from father to son and so on within the family. We know that persons who work in high risk areas, if you're exposed to pesticides say like farmers, if you're exposed to certain environmental risk factors, radiations and so on, which could lead to the development of cancer. So individuals have to make that conscious effort to get checked annually at least, get screened so that we can get early detection and then have a good outcome once we detect that cancer. The Ministry of Health proudly supports the World Cancer Day campaign of addressing inequalities in cancer care and reducing the impact of cancer. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, I am Funal Neptune.