As the world marked World Cancer Day on February 4, 2018, Dr Kwabena Twum-Nuamah, a legislator, has called for the strengthening of early diagnosis at all levels of the health system to reduce the burden of all types of the disease. He identified cervical cancer as a leading cause of cancer related deaths among women … Read more
Childhood cancer often strikes its youngest victims the hardest, and the death rate for infants may be up to four times higher than previously thought, US researchers said Monday. The study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology examined deaths within a month of diagnosis, those young lives which usually end before the patients can be … Read more
Rates of colon and rectal cancer are rising sharply among young and middle-aged adults in the United States but doctors have yet to pinpoint why, researchers said Tuesday. The report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that Generation X and millennials face anywhere from twice to four times the risk of colon … Read more
The country’s first ever cancer registry in the Ashanti regional capital Kumasi has made modest gains since its inception in 2012. The cancer registry in Kumasi has been facilitating data collection and effective management of the disease over the past four years. Although work started on the facility in 2012, it became operational in 2014 … Read more