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Alba Gilca
@albagilca.bsky.social
Public health advocate🙌
Cancer prevention 🍎🏋️‍♀️💧
Food policy lover 🥦
Paella cook 🥘
📍 Brussels
💼 Association of European Cancer Leagues
@cancerleagues.bsky.social
@unicef’s latest report: Food environments are failing children.

Who regulates them? Policymakers

When they don’t act? Junk food targets kids

The solution? Policymakers must do their job and protect children.

shorturl.at/W3HwE
September 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
#Liver cancer is set to double by 2050 - but 60% of cases are preventable.

The drivers:
- Chronic hepatitis
- Alcohol consumption
- Obesity and metabolic liver disease #MASLD

The solutions:
- #Vaccination & #Screening
- #Alcohol and #UPF regulation
- Better #FoodEnvironment

shorturl.at/nVHXs
July 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
📢 IARC & ACS have launched the #CancerAtlas

The most common cancer among women in Europe? Breast cancer, by far.

Main risk factors? #Alcohol 🍷 & #overweight 🥐

Main #EU policies to tackle them? Still missing 🫥

What exactly are policymakers waiting for? 🙄

#PublicHealth #CancerPrevention #EBCP
June 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The exhibition at @europarl.europa.eu featuring adorable dogs and this @lidltrek.bsky.social ad promoting fruits & veggies for kids just made my day 🫶
April 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
In the European Union in 2025, where you live can determine if you live, how long you live, and how well you live.

Access to cancer care therapies varies significantly across regions 👇
April 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"Paella cook" in my bio? Time to prove it! 🔥

The 2025 season is officially open - spots are available 📖

🥘❤️

#HappyAlicantina
March 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
@fao.org adds Health to the Agriculture debate👏

Very high-risk subgroups (...) may suffer from malnutrition and obesity caused by an excess of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), a dearth of affordable fruits and vegetables, and insufficient nutrient-dense foods, including animal protein.
March 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Actually, Petro, I would put it the other way around!

"Regulate further on whiskey, it isn't better than cocaine" 😅
February 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Cancer prevalence and mortality are so closely linked to socioeconomic status and education level that one might think poverty is the number one risk factor.

#CancerInequality #PublicHealth #SocialDeterminants #HealthEquity #CancerPrevention #RightToHealth #HealthPolicy
February 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The @ec.europa.eu and the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social have launched the Country Cancer Profile 2025, to identify strengths, challenges, and areas of action for cancer #prevention and care.

Only in the EU, every minute 5 people are diagnosed with #cancer.

Spain 👉https://shorturl.at/LodIL
February 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
WCRF Policy recommendations on cancer prevention include the usual best buys:

- Marketing restrictions📺
- Health taxes 💶🥐🍷
- Healthy school environments (advertisement, restaurants in the surroundings) 👧🏫🚫🍔
- Public procurement 🍎

Health should be the norm.
January 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Prevention is the only way forward"

Launch of the Policy Blueprint on Cancer Prevention by the World Cancer Research Fund International
January 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is a map of the most common #cancer among women

Breast cancer

#Alcohol consumption is one of the main risk factors for breast cancer - yet, there is no public awareness nor warning labels 🍾🍷🍺

What are we waiting for?

Via the Cancer Atlas canceratlas.cancer.org/the-burden/e...
January 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
@cancerresearchuk.org's cancer prevention recommendations 👇

- limit alcohol consumption 🚫🍷
- eat vegetables, fruits, beans and wholegrains 🍎🍌🫑
- limit consumption of red and processed meat 🥓

More information: shorturl.at/UPeXc
January 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Dr. Kluge stresses the importance of civil society in addressing the 4 main NCD risk factors: #alcohol, #tobacco, lack of #physicalactivity and #unhealthyfoods

Join the hearings on the next European Programme of Work (2026-2030) of the #WHO Regional Office for Europe 👉https://shorturl.at/cp9Qh
January 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM