Breast Cancer Society of Ghana screens women in Tamale
The Breast Cancer Society of Ghana has organised a health screening exercise for women in the Tamale, as part of its breast cancer awareness campaign. The campaign, which was organised ...
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World Childhood Cancer supports GHS with childhood cancer medication
World Childhood Cancer in partnership with Amgen has donated 1,510 vails of rituximab worth over Ghc7 million to the Ghana Health Service towards the treatment of childhood cancers nationwide. Rituximab ...
Cassona, Medical Scientific partner to make breast cancer screening affordable
The Cassona Global Imaging Limited and Medical Scientific have partnered to make mammograms accessible to women in Ghana for early detection and treatment of breast cancer. The partnership would ensure ...
Cervical cancer vaccination to be part of routine vaccination in Ghana
Cervical cancer (human Papillomavirus HPV) vaccination is to be mainstream into the routine vaccination programmes in Ghana to make it accessible to all women and girls from the appropriate age. ...
Project to eliminate cervical cancer launched in Ketu South
A project to eliminate cervical cancer through screening for early detection and treatment, has been launched at Aflao in Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region. It is dubbed: “Adopting ...
No woman must be allowed to die from cervical cancer – Clinical Epidemiologist
Dr Grace Adjoa Ocansey, a Clinical Epidemiologist, has said no woman must be allowed to die from cervical cancer because the cancer is “preventable and curable.” She said also ...
Knowledge and technology exist to eliminate cervical cancer-Dr. Kpodar
Dr. Chris Kpodar, a former United Nations Consultant for Africa and the Middle East, has stated that knowledge and technology exist to eliminate cervical cancer using effective, low-cost methods, even ...
Ghana losing too many young women to cervical cancer
Dr Promise Sefogah, General Secretary, Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Ghana, has expressed worry about how the country is increasingly losing many young women to cervical cancer. Dr Sefogah ...
Ghana needs holistic approach to fight against cervical cancer – Dr Kpodar
Dr Chris Kpodar, the former United Nations Consultant for Africa and the Middle East, has called for a holistic and relentless national approach to fight cervical cancer in Ghana. ...
Cervical Cancer Vaccination should be free – Health Stakeholders
Stakeholders in the health sector have called on the Government to make cervical cancer vaccinations free as an effective way to prevent it among women and to encourage many younger ...
