Breast Cancer Archives - Ghana News Express

Theme: “No One Should Face Breast Cancer Alone” The Ministry of Health, in partnership with the Ghana Health Service, Civil Society Organizations, and other stakeholders, has officially launched the 2025 Breast Cancer Awareness Month under the theme “No One Should Face Breast Cancer Alone.” The annual commemoration, held in Accra today, seeks to raise awareness, promote early detection, and strengthen access to quality breast cancer care nationwide. Globally, breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women. In 2022, about 2.3 million women were diagnosed, with 670,000 losing their lives to the disease. In Ghana, breast cancer accounts for 31% of all female cancers, with 8 out of 10 cases still detected at advanced stages. This is far below the World Health Org...

Men are less likely to develop breast cancer than women, but are more likely to die from the disease, according to an analysis in Germany. Some 80.4% of women and 69.6% of men are still alive five years after diagnosis, says the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety (LGL) in Germany, based on cancer registry data. As men are rarely diagnosed with breast cancer, little information is available about diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Male breast cancer accounts for less than 1% of all breast cancer diagnoses, according to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. In Germany, 70,550 women and 740 men were newly diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020, says the country's Robert Koch Institute (RKI). Women have a 13.2% chance of developing breast cancer...

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Ghana Launches 2025 Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast cancer less common but more deadly in men, study shows