 Hello, everyone. My name is Dr. Malik Arjun Kalashatthi. I am a consultant hematologist and bone marrow transplantation physician at Manipal Hospital, Old Airport Road, Bangalore. 4th of February is globally marked as World Cancer Day. On this day, across the globe, we all want to reach out to as many people as possible to set right the true information about cancer to do away with stigma and misinformation about cancer. We all know, every year, across the globe and in our own country, there are researches going on with regards to almost every cancer. With each passing day, every cancer has newer modalities of treatment. There is indeed a paradigm shift in treatment of many cancers wherein we are moving away from dreadful toxic conventional therapies to more precise, targeted and less toxic immunotherapies, for example. And same is true in our own country as well. We all want to reach out to patients and their families to say that cancer should not scare anyone, that it is important to diagnose it as early as possible. All of us have suffered due to the global pandemic of COVID-19 infection. I want to reach out to our patient and families to say we take utmost precautions in terms of treating our patients, using safety norms and using all the safety checks when we treat individuals with cancers so that the treatment is not interrupted, their disease should not progress because of lack of follow-ups or timely treatment. As with many cancers, I, being a hematoconcologist, I can tell you that increasingly in blood cancers like acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, Hodgkin's lymphomas, various non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, were increasingly either using immunotherapy modalities in isolation or combined with chemotherapy protocols. And with these newer modalities of treatment, more and more patients are getting cured, even those with difficult cancers, cancers which have come back after initial therapy, cancers which several years before were almost incurable are being treated with lesser and lesser toxicity. In this day and age, what we do as individuals in our families, in our communities, universities and in our countries do matter and have impact not only on our lives, but on the lives of everyone around us. Together, our actions can help save lives and that is the theme for 2021 World Cancer Day.