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20 Jul 23

Hesitating to attend breast cancer screening and education inhibits fight against disease-MBCF

Meena Breast Cancer Foundation (MBCF) has observed with concern the lackadaisical attitude of some women to attend organized screening and sensitization events. A midwife with the Tema General Hospital Dorothy Denkyi who made the observation indicated that such behaviors would inhibit the fight against breast cancer. “If you hear that…

July 20, 2023
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At least fifteen pupils of the Petuduase T.I Ahmadiyya Basic School in the Central Region have been identified to have lumps in their breasts. The adolescents, ranging from ages 12 to 15 were screened together with women in Petuduase during Meena Breast Cancer Foundation’s (MBCF), breast cancer sensitization and screening…

12 Jul 23

MBCF breast screening campaign-Women urged to refrain from drinking alcohol

Women have been urged to refrain from taking alcohol as the fight against breast cancer intensifies. Giving the advice, a nurse with the Tema General Hospital, Dorothy Yirenkyi said alcohol makes women susceptible to contracting breast cancer among other unhealthy living habits. She was speaking to residents of Otwekrom, a…

12 Jul 23

Women of Otwekwa educated and screened for breast cancer

Women of Otwekwa within the Agona Swedru Municipality in the Central Region have been educated and screened for breast cancer. Meena Breast Cancer Foundation (MBCF) put together the exercise as it intensifies the fight against the disease. Women in the deprived community turned up in their numbers to undertake the…

10 Jul 23

Examine your breast

Ladies, Check Yourself!

03 Jul 23

Breast cancer patient passes-on

After battling breast cancer for over a year, 59-year-old Esther Kwabea has given up the ghost. Madam Kwabea would have lost her life to breast cancer in 2022 if not for the timely intervention of Crime Check Foundation (CCF) she lived on for a year. In April 2022, the widow…

03 Jul 23

MBCF screens Mangoase residents for breast cancer

Hundreds of women at Mangoase in the Central Region have turned up to screen their breasts during an exercise held in the community. Meena Breast Cancer Foundation (MBCF) organized the screening exercise as part of its community sensitization outreaches. MBCF was established to support breast cancer patients to undergo treatment…

03 Jul 23

You have to care

Cancer does not care, so you have to – Crystal Brown-Tatum

27 Jun 23

MBCF screens residents, hawkers at McCarthy and Mallam for breast cancer

The Meena Breast Cancer Foundation (MBCF) has screened approximately ten thousand women, a year after its establishment, its Executive Director, Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng has said. Mr. Kwarteng noted that MBCF’s resolve to tackle breast cancer throughout the year to help decimate the loss of life is not just paying lip…