Ghana aims at 60 percent survival rate for children with cancer by 2030

Sammy Adjei - Nov 19, 2019 0

Around 1,300 new cases of childhood cancer are expected in Ghana each year. There are two main childhood cancer treatment centres in Ghana with...

President pays glowing tribute to First Lady for serving Ghana

Ghana News Agency - Oct 31, 2019 0

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has commended the First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, for her immense contribution towards the provision of critical services...

Health facilitates must screen all women for breast cancer – Morna

Ghana News Agency - Oct 10, 2019 0

Health facilities in the country at all levels have been encouraged to screen all women who visit their facility for the early detection of...

Zimbabwe President Robert G. Mugabe casket carried by soldiers to Rufaro Stadium on September 12, 2019.

Robert Mugabe died from advanced cancer – Mnangagwa

xinhuanet.com - Sep 23, 2019 0

Former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe died from advanced cancer and had already been taken off chemotherapy, his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. ...

UICC: 3 eminent figures shortlisted for Outstanding Contribution to Cancer Control Award

Ike Dzokpo - Sep 12, 2019 0

The Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) has announced the names of the three nominees shortlisted for its inaugural Outstanding Contribution to Cancer...

Cervical Cancer is Curable at The Early Stages

Ghana News Agency - Mar 23, 2019 0

Cervical cancer could be cured if detected early during screening at an appropriate health facility, Mrs. Monica Danso, Assistant Staff Midwife at the Family...

Roman Reigns Cancer Diminishing

Bang Showbiz - Feb 27, 2019 0

The WWE superstar - who revealed four months ago that he was battling leukaemia - made an incredible return on 'Monday Night Raw' last...

Cancer Cases Still Soaring

Ghana News Agency - Feb 5, 2019 0

Cancer has been considered as one of the world’s most pressing health concerns, killing in excess of eight million people every year, more than...

A Christian Brother Raped My Daughter

Rex Krampa - Oct 29, 2018 0

She died of cancer The problem of suffering/evil has been branded by many Christian Apologist as the toughest question posed against the Christian faith. However,...

Study links mutation that disrupts DNA’s electrical signaling to colon cancer

xinhuanet.com - Jun 18, 2018 0

A single missing iron atom in a key DNA repair protein may be the root cause for the development of an aggressive, early-onset form...

Chinese researchers find new remedies to lung cancer

xinhuanet.com - Apr 20, 2018 0

Chinese researchers have developed two new medicines that may prolong the lives of lung cancer patients, the China Daily reported Friday. Researchers from Shanghai Chest...

A cancer cell (Image from Wikipedia.org)

Mandela University Advances in Cancer treatment

News Ghana - Apr 5, 2018 0

17 years after Nelson Mandela sold the dream of a state of the art institution to drive Africa’s advancement in science and technology to...

Ghanaians Urged To Adopt Scientific Measures

ABK - Nov 17, 2017 0

Professor Kwadwo Koram, the Former Director of Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Legon, said Ghanaians must examine their beliefs in the context of...

Limited Resources Affecting Impact Access To Care

ABK - Nov 11, 2017 0

Mr Markus Gemuend, the Head of Sub-Saharan Africa, Roche, has said that the lack of financial burden data was a major obstacle to developing...

Asanko Gold Establish Strong Community Presence

ABK - Nov 3, 2017 0

Asanko Gold Mine, a mining company operating in the Amansie West, has established strong community presence to remove any tension and conflict with the...

Ghana Society UK Unveils Ambassadors for Ghana’s World Child Cancer

News Ghana - Sep 29, 2017 0

Sherifa Gunu, Irene Logan, Flowking Stone, Ellen Kyei White, Joel Orleans, Louisa Annan and Mizter Okyere have been enlisted as our Ambassadors for World...

Shannen Doherty Tells How Cancer Made Her Right

News Ghana - Sep 29, 2017 0

In an exclusive interview with Life & Style magazine, actress Shannen Doherty, 46, shares she’s emerged from her harrowing two-year battle with cancer as...

Iranian cancer researcher with valid visa deported from US

News Ghana - Jul 12, 2017 0

An Iranian cancer researcher who had been headed to a prominent Boston hospital to work as a scholar was sent back to his country...

Low levels of cancer awareness causing late treatment of disease in Ghana – Dr...

News Ghana - Jun 30, 2017 0

Low levels of awareness about childhood cancers among the public and health workers lead to late presentation for appropriate treatment and care. In Ghana, about...

Namibia battles cancer through apple sales

News Ghana - Jun 29, 2017 0

The Cancer Association of Namibia (CAN) and project partners on Wednesday launched a project to persuade Namibians to eat apples to fight cancers. ...

Unqualified radiographers could be responsible for people’s cancer’

News Ghana - Jun 17, 2017 0

Mr Prince Rockson, the National President of the Ghana Society of Radiographers (GSR), said wrong usage of radiation on the body could cause cancer...

Volunteers to the Mars 2020 mission face cancer risk

News Ghana - Jun 12, 2017 0

It's been said that the first Mars explorers will have to be prepared to take one for humanity. As various studies have shown, they...

Western Sanctions, Like a Cancer, Seriously Hit Syrian Medicine

News Ghana - Jun 7, 2017 0

The Representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) said the hospitals in Syria are now in critical situation because of Western sanctions. WHO representative in...

Ghana Lacks Comprehensive Policy On Occupational Health

ABK - May 3, 2017 0

Exposure to wood dust may cause external and internal health problems. Adverse health effects associated with wood dust exposure may include dermatitis, allergic respiratory effects,...

Study Shows Cycling Could Reduce Cancer and Heart Diseases

News Ghana - Apr 21, 2017 0

Want to live longer? Reduce your risk of cancer? And heart disease? Then cycle to work, say scientists. The biggest study into the issue linked...

Researchers in Australia find ways to preventing mutation, spreading of cancer

News Ghana - Apr 12, 2017 0

Australian scientists have made a breakthrough in preventing cancer from mutating in the body. The team from Melbourne's Olivia Newton-John (ONJ) Cancer Wellness and Research...

Late Prof Mills Was Medically Fit to Run for 2008-2012 Elections – Dr Cadman...

News Ghana - Mar 30, 2017 0

file image Dr Cadman Mills, brother of the former President John Evans Atta Mills has disclosed that his brother neither died of throat cancer nor...

Cervical Cancer The Preventable Cancer Among Women

News Ghana - Mar 11, 2017 0

Permit me space to draw to the attention of the public of this disease which is now in a rise and affects women ...

More Than 700 Women Are Able to Beat Cancer – BCI

News Ghana - Mar 3, 2017 0

The President of Breast Care International, (BCI), Dr. Beatrice Wiafe Addai, has disclosed that over seven hundred women who were diagnosed of breast cancer,...

R N G Research Lab to begin production

News Ghana - Feb 27, 2017 0

R N G Medicine Research Lab, with Dr. Nyarkotey Obu, a well-known advocate in the fight against prostate cancer as a member of the...

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