World Child Cancer USA shared a post by Ayire Adongo, Regional Coordinator for Sub Saharan Africa atWorld Child Cancer, adding:
“Ayire Adongo works for World Child Cancer as the regional coordinator for Sub-Saharan Africa, based in Ghana and supporting childhood cancer care programs across the African continent.
Check out his reflection on a significant achievement in childhood cancer care in Ghana: the country’s first national treatment guidelines. It’s crucial to ensure consistent, highest-quality care for all children, and Ayire explained how these new guidelines will improve functions across services in his home country, ultimately reducing preventable deaths.”
Quoting Ayire Adongo‘s post:
“Standardized care is a right, not a privilege.
We are thrilled to see Ghana launch its first-ever national guidelines for the treatment of childhood cancer. This initiative aims to bridge the gap in healthcare delivery, ensuring that specialized treatment centers nationwide follow a unified protocol.
Why this matters:
In Ghana, it is estimated that nearly 1,500 children develop cancer annually. While diagnosis rates are improving—reaching 513 cases last year—there is still work to be done in early detection and survival. These new guidelines are designed to improve outcomes and save lives by:
Reducing preventable deaths through standard care.
Streamlining the referral system.
Building a framework for long-term survival monitoring.
Kudos to the Childhood Cancer Society of Ghana (CCSG), World Child Cancer, and all the surgeons, oncologists, nurses, and pharmacists who contributed to this multi-disciplinary breakthrough.
Together, we are moving closer to the goal: A 60% survival rate for our children by 2030. Read more.”
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