Being reborn after cancer, Barletta celebrates Cancer Survivors Day

Cancer Survivors Day was also celebrated in Barletta. «LILT BAT organized a group yoga session on the day dedicated to those who have had a tumor, to celebrate life, wonder and well-being», as witnessed by Michele Ciniero, president of LILT BAT, Maria Mazzilli (LILT Trani), 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 conceived 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 exalt the importance of resilience.

In 2023 alone, approximately 400,000 new cancer diagnoses were estimated in our country, while cancer survivors are 3.6 million: 5.7% of the population. Of these, 53% are women and 47% are 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.