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Preventing and Overcoming Cancer
At Empowered Health & Cancer Wellness, our goals are to increase social consciousness and knowledge around cancer, and to encourage healthy SELF-CARE preventive practices among African-Caribbean communities globally.
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What is “Your Gut” and Why It’s Important For Good Health?
Contrary to the popular concept, your gut (or digestive system) is not just the stomach and intestines. The human gut starts from the mouth and goes all the way down to the rectum with the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, and colon in...
Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Among Black Women
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive form of breast cancer that tends to spread at a faster rate given its difference from other types of cancer. When a patient is first diagnosed with breast cancer, oncologists test for three specific gene-receptors;...
Cancer Risks Related To Being Overweight or Obese
According to Cancer Research UK, being overweight or obese is the second biggest cause of cancer.[1] It is becoming more prevalent in African-Caribbean populations. Here’s why! Being overweight and obesity, in general, is showing an increasing trend especially in the...
Eating Superfoods to strengthen your immune system
What are superfoods? Foods that promote your physical, mental and emotional well-being and decrease the chances of contracting diseases are known as super foods. They are nutrient rich and provide great benefit to improve the quality of health and well-being. Examples...
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Cancer diagnosis and mortality is on the rise but it doesn’t have to be – 30-50% of all cancer cases are preventable.
The Time for Action is Now!
Reported cases of cancer have been increasing at an alarming rate in Africa and the Caribbean.
A study published in The Lancet Oncology estimates that by 2030, 1.7 million cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the Latin America & the Caribbean region, and more than a million people will die from cancer each year.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that by 2040, Africa will have 2,123,245 new cases of cancer and 1,429,812 people will die from the disease.
This means that cancer incidences and deaths will more than double in the next 21 years.
“Comprehensive data on cancer and mortality in Africa are not available. The data fail to accurately convey the devastating reality in Africa,” says Dr. Funmi Olopade, Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago.
…Here, cancer is nearly always fatal, and patients and their families have little or no hope that they will over the disease and be healthy again.
Statistics
Research from GLOBOCAN 2018 shows the trends in new cancer cases worldwide.
The mortality-to-incidence ratio (MIR) or number of deaths compared to new cases provides directional insight into cancer management outcomes for countries and regions.
Sub-Saharan Africa – MIR in 2018:
- Cervical Cancer 68%
- Prostate Cancer 53%
- Colorectal Cancer 66%
- Lung Cancer 96%
- Breast Cancer 46%
Caribbean – MIR in 2018
- Cervical Cancer 59%
- Prostate Cancer 49%
- Colorectal Cancer 57%
- Lung Cancer 86%
- Breast Cancer 39%
Note: Colorectal – includes Colon, Rectum, Anus
