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Almost 2 000 cancer patients who are receiving cancer radiation therapy treatment in Gauteng from the North West daily will now be treated at Klerksdorp Hospital - following the opening of the first radiation oncology unit in the province. It unit cost R56.3 million to build. "We have intensely module ...
Read Story at SABCNews (2010-03-13)
The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) has urged all South Africans to join the fight against cancer during Cancer Prevention Week from 1-7 August. During this week, CANSA staff will increase awareness throughout the country by promoting healthy lifestyles and CANSA services to patients, their families and the general ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2006-08-03)
CANCER TREND in the country is said to be increasing at an alarming rate with 10 cases recorded every week at the Oncology directorate of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). The trend seems to corroborate the global situation where 10 million new cancer cases are said to be ...
Read Story at The Ghanian Chronicle (2005-04-07)
The director of the National Centre of Oncology, Fernando Miguel, on Friday here exhorted the population to take preventive measures against diseases that lead to cancer, through self-exam for a timely treatment of the pathology, considering the increase of cancer cases in the country. Speaking to Angop about a ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2006-02-10)
THE lives of hundreds of cancer patients in Matabeleland, Midlands and Masvingo are under threat following the breakdown of the only cancer treatment machine at Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo. The hospital has been forced to stop administering radiotherapy to patients affected by cancer after the machine used ...
Read Story at The Standard (2003-10-04)
Current statistics over the years show a steady increase in the number of patients suffering from breast cancer, the Minister for Health, Mrs Charity Ngilu, said yesterday. Ngilu said breast cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer in Kenyan women after cervical cancer. She said that in 1972, 42 cancer ...
Read Story at East African Standard (2003-07-12)
THE only machine in Namibia used to treat skin cancer and superficial lesions, which is at the AB May Cancer Care Centre in Windhoek, has broken down - again. As a result, cancer patients in need of ...
Read Story at The Namibian (2004-04-21)
The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) is asking all doctors and health professionals to quit smoking and urge their patients to do the same in order to reduce cancer and the 25,000 tobacco related deaths a year in the country. CANSA`s campaign for the month of May is in ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2005-04-27)
An expert and a former lecturer in Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Professor J.K.T. Duncan has called on all stakeholders in health delivery to pool resources to ensure acquisition/procurement of cancer treatment machines such as radiotherapy machines for the early diagnosis and treatment of cancer. He ...
Read Story at ThisDay (2004-05-12)
The director of the National Centre of Oncology, Fernando Miguel, on Monday, here, defended the need of being created simple and efficient methods to inform and sensitize the country`s females on how to prevent breast cancer. The physician was speaking at a lecture held under the theme "Breast Cancer ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2005-03-09)
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