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Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines 2018 •Recommends population-based screening for breast cancer based on a specified risk assessment and stratification. • Promotes breast health education and self-breast awareness as key aspects in early detection of breast cancer. • Mammography as the choice screening method for average-risk
Scale Up of Breast Cancer Screening and Early Diagnosis: To reduce incidence and mortality related to breast cancer in Kenya, MoH has developed an action plan to provide a country –specific implementation framework for scale up of breast cancer screening and early diagnosis.
Highlights breast cancer as the leading type of cancer in incidence both globally and in Kenya. Late diagnosis being the current scenario as about 68% of all breast cancer cases in Kenya are diagnosed in advanced stages. Why Breast cancer screening is important.
Net economic benefits of expanded breast cancer care using clinical breast exam screening are $2.3 billion dollars (USD) over the next 40 years with 236,000 women's lives saved in Kenya. Mammographic screening provides net benefits of $1.9 billion (USD) with an additional 34,000 lives saved over 40 years compared to the CBE-led screening approach.
In February, 2019, we did a study to understand important factors affecting the diagnosis and treatment of patients with breast cancer in Kenya.
1 cze 2018 · Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in Kenya. Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) is the only public institution offering comprehensive cancer care in Kenya. Methods: To determine the pathology, clinical care pattern and outcome of breast cancer at the KNH.
The Kenya Cancer Policy 2019-2030 provides for a framework to comprehensively address cancer control in Kenya through the systematic implementation of evidence-based interventions for prevention, screening, timely diagnosis, treatment, survivorship and palliative care, financing, monitoring, and research.
