Current estimates indicates that over 24,000 new cases of cancer are recorded each year at Ghana.[1] In 2020, 15,802 Ghanaians died from cancer.[2][3] A 2015 study in Kumasi recorded breast and cervical cancer raked high records among females. Prostate cancer recorded the highest among males. Breast, liver and cervical were leading in both sexes.[4]
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