About 16,000 cases of cancer occur annually in Ghana with 1,000 cases recorded among children, and due to compounding factors most diagnosis are at the advanced or terminal stages. The west African ...

ACCRA, May 25 (Reuters) - In the open-air kitchen of a small research clinic in Ghana's capital, Accra, pathologist Kafui Akakpo carefully carved a piece of cancerous breast tissue into a sample ...

Breast cancer remains a significant health challenge globally with approximately 2.3M new cases in 2022 1. While breast cancer deaths continue to fall in many countries worldwide, in others the ...

SUFFERN − When Isabella Naana Asante was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, she was overwhelmed. She'd been living in the U.S., working as a nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital. But in Ghana, ...

No published study to date has examined total cost and cost-effectiveness of maintaining a pediatric oncology treatment center in an African setting, thus limiting childhood cancer advocacy and policy ...

The Trust Hospital Company Ltd. convened The Trust Cancer Care Academy in Accra from June 12th to 14th, with the central theme of "Closing the Care Gap: Advancing Cancer Care through Education and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) – A breast cancer survivor ...

More than six out of every 10 colorectal cancer patients in Ghana die within five years of diagnosis, according to a new study by researchers at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

Taiwo Alimi examines Nigeria’s soaring medical/economical loss to Ghana, via cancer treatment. The first time breast cancer survivor Senanu Ladipo, 49, went to the ever-busy Lagos University Teaching ...

Who knew that fighting breast cancer for the third time in seven years would reveal my purpose in life. I have never felt better about my life than now. My mantra each morning when I wake up, during ...

"There are a lot of myths and misconceptions around breast cancer in Ghana", she continues." Women traditionally find a lump and go to their local prayer group or herbalist to cure it. In the past ...