Emofra Africa sponsored a Christmas party for over 300 doctors, nurses and support staff of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana. We are thankful to our corporate sponsors: Koala Supermarket, Mint Club, and Aquafill for their generous support to make the program a success.
Roots Hotel Apartment sponsors Lunch for A Cause. This lunch was an opportunity for guests to learn about Emofra Africa and pediatric cancer in Ghana. We are grateful to our corporate sponsors.
Emofra Africa would like to thank these amazing ladies for supporting the Africharms fund raiser to support Emofra. Your generosity will enable us to sponsor cancer treatment for children in Ghana.
The LCS PTO donates the proceeds of the 2016 Lincoln Gala to Emofra Africa to pay for the treatment of two children with Hodgkin Lymphoma and Burkitts Lymphoma. We are eternally grateful.
School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
It hopes to reduce poverty and child mortality through improvement in diagnosis, treatment and care for affected children.
World Child Cancer Country Programme Coordinator, George Achempim tells News Ghana, Lymphomas, Leukaemias, Retinoblastomas which affect the eyes and Wilms (Kidney) are some of the commonest childhood cancers in Ghana.
According to him, eradicating the disease will take a combined effort of parents of affected children and the general public hand in hand with the health workers.
He explained that, cancer is a generic term for a large number of diseases that can affect any part of the body, which starts when cells in a part of the body begin to grow out of proportion.
Cancer cell growth is different from normal cell growth, instead of dying, it continues to grow, form new abnormal cells, and invade (grow into) other tissues.
He said, in every 3 minutes 1 child is diagnosed of cancer according to the American Childhood Cancer Organization in 2015.
” … And globally, 200,000 to 250,000 each year, where 160,000 indicating 80% of these children with cancer, lives in the developing countries. Where as 50th 200 / 1000 indicating 20% to 30% in low Middle Income Countries. He threw more light on the fact that, generally 80% of Childhood Cancers are curable.”
“We failed 11 year old Yaa Adwoboa Owusu Who lost the battle to childhood cancer on the 4th of December 2015, at KATH in Kumasi and we continue to fail many other children suffering from this dreaded disease” he stressed.
According to him the country is doing so bad as children are dying because of weak health care system, coupled with lack of commitment to support childhood cancer.
“It is such a shame that, NHIS does not cover any childhood cancer medication or treatment. But we can spend Ghs 30,420.00 for re – branding of busses” he lamented.
World Child Cancer hopes to create more awareness as it seeks to encourage post-humous review to establish the actual cause in the event of death of a cancer victim.
Source : Sammy Adjei / Newsghana.com.gh
Results from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS) show that current advances in treatment and follow-up have led to improved survival of childhood cancers, including lymphoma, especially by reducing deaths due to lingering effects of cancer treatment. The study, performed at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, was published in the online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Combined whole exome tumor and blood sequencing in pediatric cancer patients revealed mutations that could help explain the cause of cancer or have the potential to impact clinical cancer care in 40 percent of patients in a study led by researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Cancer Center.
Proton radiotherapy defines the cutting edge of pediatric cancer treatment. However, it’s been 50 years since that “edge” was etched.
“It is the oldest ‘new’ technology,” said Eugen Hug, MD, an expert and pioneer in the use of proton therapy for pediatric tumors and Director of the International Patient Program at ProCure Proton Therapy Center, Somerset, New Jersey. The first cancer patient to receive proton therapy was treated in Upsala, Sweden, in 1953. Since then, it has been a slow ascendance into acceptance and use.
February 15, 2016 is International Childhood Cancer Day. This day recognises a global collaborative campaign to raise awareness about childhood cancer, and to express support for children and adolescents with cancer, the survivors and their families.
February 4, 2016: Emofra Africa donates books sponsored by the 4th Grade students of Lincoln Community School in Ghana to the Paediatric Oncology Ward in Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
