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Prof. Reginald Adjetey Annan of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has been named the first African researcher based in Africa to win a World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) Award.
Prof. Annan will study how certain health problems, like high blood sugar and excess body fat along with the helpful bacteria in the stomach and intestines called the gut microbiome, might affect the risk of breast cancer in Ghanaian women attending breast cancer screening centers in Ghana.
Breast cancer is a major public health concern in Sub-Saharan Africa challenging healthcare systems. Women of African descent are more likely to develop an aggressive form of breast cancer called triple-negative breast cancer, which affects recovery rates.
Most studies on breast cancer have been conducted among women of other races in other parts of the world and similar studies in Africa are non-existent.
Read more about the study here: https://www.wcrf.org/research-policy/our-research/grants-database/metabolic-syndrome-gut-microbiome-and-breast-cancer-risk-among-sub-saharan-african-women-the-african-breast-cancer-screening-abcs-study/
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