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Consultant urologist Dr Belinda Morrison feels that if men would pay as much attention to their health as they do their cars, there would be a significant dent in the increasing numbers of cases of prostate cancer, which last year ...

Health practitioners have not been proactive enough in getting men aged 40 and over to screen for prostate cancer, which kills just over 4,000 Jamaican men each year. At the same time, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, has launched a prostate cancer awareness campaign to help reduce the high number of deaths associated with the illness locally. Speaking at the launch yesterday, August 29 at the ...

THE Jamaica Cancer Society is expecting to raise $20 million when it stages its annual Relay for Life event next month to help finance its efforts to raise awareness about cancer, provide screening tests for and early detection of the ...

WITH the number of people diagnosed with cancer expected to balloon in coming years, one of the nation’s leading surgeons and university professors is urging his colleagues and the Government to address current barriers to cancer care delivery. In a ...

EXECUTIVE director of the Jamaica Cancer Society, Yulit Gordon, is urging insurance companies to offer more affordable critical illness plans to patients, amid increasing cancer diagnoses and the rising costs for treatment or health coverage. Gordon was a guest at ...

Natalie Buckle, chief operations officer, JETS Ltd Getting a Pap smear done annually after the age of 21 is one of those things that you just do as part of being a woman. For me, it’s like any other rite ...

APRIL IS CERVICAL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH CANCER of the cervix, or mouth of the womb, is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide, with over half-million new cases per year. Over 75 per cent of the cases occur in ...