MAMMOCARE - AN AWARENESS AND EARLY DETECTION BREAST CANCER PROGRAMME

1. THE PROBLEM Breast cancer is a disease which affects women almost exclusively with 99% of all cases being women. It is established that being a woman, advancing in age, is the major risk factor for the disease. The average age for diagnosis has been established at 48 years and, indeed, usually diagnosed at 39 years in women who are still menstruating.

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The incidence in Ghana of the disease has been estimated at 50-70 cases for every 100,000 women. The post-treatment survival rate is very low due to the low level of awareness, late detection, and high cost of treatment. Indeed breast cancer has claimed some of Ghana's most illustrious women.

2. THE SOLUTION

MAMMOCARE has been established as a Non-Governmental Organisation to provide breast cancer awareness services and to serve as an information, screening and treatment resource centre. The centre adopts a more cost effective and life saving approach. The major thrust of the work of MAMMOCARE is to provide:

2.1 Breast cancer awareness programmes

2.4 Early detection

2.2 Financial support for treatment

2.3 Examination and follow up

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HIGHLIGHTS ON BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH ACTIVITIES, CONDUCTED BY MAMMOCARE GHANA, SUPPORTED BY BREASTHOPEGHANA; OCTOBER 2004 [Download document in Microsoft Word format]

A CROSS-SECTIONAL VIEW OF BREAST CANCER IN GHANA, DATA FROM MAMMOCARE GHANA – OCTOBER 2001. COMPILED BY F. N. GHARTEY JNR. Download report in (Microsoft Word format)