Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) [India], August 11 (ANI/BusinessWire India): A very rare form of bone tumour was detected in a nine-year-old girl during a checkup for a swelling in the thigh. Coimbatore's first successful bone tumour operation without the need for amputation was performed at Sri Ramakrishna Hospital.
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At this juncture, beyond the lingering COVID pandemic, if there’s something I’ll remember 2021 for, it’ll be as the year I was diagnosed with Stage 1 prostate cancer. And I’ve heard all there is to hear about how it’s a slow-growing cancer, how it’s eminently curable, or that if left alone and ignored, it’s more likely you’ll die of something else than prostate cancer. But the fact remains that being told you have it leaves strong intimations of one’s mortality. And while yes, it is slow-growing, there is the medical fact that it can spread from the prostate, and ‘invade’ your bones and other parts of your body, to complicate matters.
Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, in partnership with H.E. Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, First Lady of Ghana and Ambassador of Merck More than a Mother together with the Ministry of Health of Ghana, mark ‘World Cancer Day 2021’ themed ‘I am and I will’ through their Cancer Access Program to build cancer care capacity with the aim of increasing the limited number of Oncologists across the continent.
Senator Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation, Most Influential African (2019 & 2020) & African Woman of the Year 2020 emphasized,
“We at Merck Foundation strive to make the African healthcare professionals highly competent and fully independent by providing the best in class multidisciplinary oncology and cancer care training to young doctors from all over Africa. I am proud of our success to reshape and advance the public cancer care sector and to increase the limited number of oncologists by more than 70 new oncologists to be the first in 24 c
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