The global cancer landscape is changing, according to WHO experts, on the eve of World Cancer Day 2021. Breast cancer has now overtaken lung cancer as.
The focus of World Cancer Day, which is commemorated annually on 4 February, and International Childhood Cancer Day, commemorated on 15 February, is to bring awareness about cancer. South Africa’s cancer incidence is increasing – as is the case globally. Predictions for the next 10 years are that prostate, lung, cervical and breast cancer will increase dramatically.
What is also alarming is that haematological cancers associated with HIV will increase dramatically. People living with HIV now live longer due to successful ARV treatments, but are more at risk of cervical cancer and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma due to their compromised immune systems. This will place a further burden on cancer services in the already crippled public sector. It is something that has to be planned for carefully.
As the days of the President s appointment keep unfolding, it is expedient that the personality of potential appointees be unravelled for consideration.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Sefwi Wiawso Constituency, Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, having been a long-standing member and stalwart of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is worth being honoured as a Cabinet Minister in this second term of H. E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo s tenure.
Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, a native of Sefwi Wiawso holds an MBCBH from the University Of Ghana Medical School, a Master of Public Health from Tulane University, New Orleans, U.S.A and a Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons.