Cancer Survivors Day. LILT BAT has organized, on the day dedicated to those who have had a tumor, a group yoga session we celebrate life, wonder and well-being, as Michele Ciniero president of LILT BAT and Maria Mazzilli (LILT Trani) testified, in collaboration with the Staff of Bagno 27 and the Piccolo Loto yoga center.
It was an opportunity to celebrate rebirth and remember that life, after a cancer diagnosis, can become reality.
What is Cancer Survivors Day
Cancer Survivors Day is the event created by LILT in the month of June, in the wake of a tradition born in 1988 in the United States. A hymn to the physical and mental rebirth of cancer patients (and not only) that draws on the yoga positions of the warrior and the sun salutation to enhance the importance of resilience.
In 2023 alone, around 400 thousand new cancer diagnoses were estimated in our country, while there are 3.6 million cancer survivors: 5.7% of the population. Of these, 53% are women and 47% men. Thanks to prevention campaigns, early diagnosis and therapeutic intervention, Cancer survival has increased by 37% in the last 10 years and cancer survivors are living proof of this.
