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What is WRAD?
Welcome to a Worldwide Movement
World Radiotherapy Awareness Day (WRAD) is a global campaign dedicated to raising awareness of radiotherapy as a vital cancer treatment. Radiotherapy helps cure cancer, relieve symptoms and improve quality of life for millions of people around the world.
What is the purpose of WRAD?
The goal of WRAD is to highlight the global need for radiotherapy and the barriers that prevent many patients from accessing this essential treatment. WRAD also helps educate healthcare professionals, policymakers, patients, caregivers and the public about the critical role radiotherapy plays in cancer care.
Access to radiotherapy depends on having enough well-trained professionals, including radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiation therapists, dosimetrists, nurses and other members of the cancer care team. WRAD aims to improve recognition of these professionals and the important work they do every day.
Many organizations and individuals are already advocating for better access to radiotherapy in their own countries and regions. WRAD amplifies these efforts by connecting people and groups around the world, creating opportunities to share knowledge, strengthen advocacy and inspire others to get involved.
Our Objectives
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Highlight the need to improve access to radiotherapy globally.
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Educate healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers about the importance of radiotherapy.
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Recognise the importance of the radiotherapy professions, including the need for an adequate and skilled workforce.
One Voice for Radiotherapy
Held annually on 7 September to commemorate the first patient treated with radiotherapy; WRAD brings the global radiotherapy community together around a shared mission: improving awareness, access, investment, and support for radiotherapy worldwide.
The inaugural theme for World Radiotherapy Awareness Day 2025–2027 is One Voice for Radiotherapy, a call for the global community to unite and speak with one voice to ensure every patient, everywhere, has access to safe, effective and life-saving radiotherapy.
Campaign Messages:
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One voice for every patients to have access to modern radiotherapy
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One voice for curing cancer and easing suffering with radiotherapy
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One voice for raising awareness of radiotherapy as a safe, effective treatment
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One workforce voice for well educated and skilled radiotherapy teams
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One voice to make lasting change for cost-effective global cancer control through radiotherapy
Co-Chairs of World Radiotherapy Awareness Day
Sandra Turner
Sandra is a radiation oncologist from Sydney, Australia, and professor at the University of Sydney. She was the founding lead of the radiotherapy advocacy campaign, Targeting Cancer. Sandra is passionate about educating healthcare professionals about radiation oncology, as well as wanting all people with cancer who’d benefit from radiotherapy to receive it.
Katie Wakeham
Katie is a Clinical Oncology Consultant within the UK's National Health Service (NHS). She serves as the co-chair of World Radiotherapy Awareness Day, a global initiative aimed at raising awareness and advocating for equitable access to radiotherapy worldwide. Additionally, Dr. Wakeham is co-lead of a mentorship program that connects radiotherapy professionals working in the NHS with their counterparts at the Uganda Cancer Institute.
