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Analysis and discussion of news and topical issues in Ghana interspersed with music and listener interactions
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Colorectal Surgeon, Professor Jonathan Dakubo is our guest on this one as we take a deep dive into cancer of the large intestine and rectum, risk factors, symptoms, screening methods, and treatment options. Emphasis on prevention and early detection strategies.
Prime morning show analysing and discussing news and topical issues in Ghana, interspersed with music and listener interactions
In this episode, Dr. Florence Dedey shares her personal journey through cancer diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Dr. Abena Sarpong takes us through support systems, palliative care principles, quality of life during treatment, and life after cancer.
"Most people associate cancer with death, so the first question they ask themselves is if they are going to survive, when diagnosed" - Dr. Florence Dedey [Consultant, General Surgeon, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital]
In this Episode, Radiation Oncologist, Dr. Stephen Kpatsi helps us understand systemic and localized treatment approaches to cancer through chemotherapy and radiation therapy, their mechanisms of action, side effects, and how they complement other treatment modalities.
"It is not everyone who will require radiation treatment for a diagnosis of cancer" - Dr. Stephen Kpatsi [Clinical/Radiation Oncologist]
In this episode, we explore surgical interventions as a primary treatment modality for cancer, including when surgery is appropriate, types of surgical procedures, and the role of surgery in cancer cure and palliation. Our guest is Dr. Elliott Arko-Boham who is a Plastic Surgeon at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
"The more cancer grows, the more it wants to move further away from where it wants to go" - Dr. Elliott Arko-Boham
"Breast MRIs are not for everyone. Mammograms can do the same job. - Dr. Albertina Oheneba-Williams [Consulting Radiologist, BME Diagnostics & Healthcare]
"For females the top two will be breast and cervical cancers, but for the males the common one is prostate cancer" - Prof. Patrick Kafui Akakpo
"I have suffered from galamsey, I was taken out of a law firm over this" - Martin Kpebu [Lawyer]
"Our cost of production of local food is higher than when we import them, no wonder we are always importing and our exchange rate is challenged" - Prof. Peter Quartey [ISSER]
"African countries are happy to show up at the UN and make propositions about how we can reform international organisations but we are unable to show that in our home countries" - Godfred Bokpin [Professor of Finance & Economist]
The ignorance of the market women on the effect of galamsey on the foodstuff they sell is alarming. - Kwame Sarpong Asiedu
"RTI Commission should not only fine institutions who refuse RTI requests but also follow up to ensure that the information is given." - Esther Ahulu [Programmes Manager, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative]
"If it was that easy to use galamsey to fix the economy, then the economy between 2017 and 2024 should have been the best economy in Ghana's history because that when galamsey was booming like never before" - Sammy Gyamfi, C.E.O of Ghana Gold Board.
"This government believed that declaring state of emergency is the best tool to deal with illegal small scale mining, and they have the opportunity to, that’s why people are saying they should follow through" - Samuel A. Jinapor, MP-Damongo Constituency
Prime morning show analysing and discussing news and topical issues in Ghana, interspersed with music and listener interactions
Prime morning show analysing and discussing news and topical issues in Ghana, interspersed with music and listener interactions
"The country that was handed over to us on 7th January 2025 was a country that was not fighting galamsey at all"- Sammy Gyamfi, C.E.O of Ghana Gold Board.
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