ONS Connect - February 2008 - (Page 13) control, trying to create smokingfree Ghana, which is mainly for patients because they did not have the right screening tests at the right time. When with breast cancer. zones in the country. educated about cancer and screening, Care of patients with cancer in Ghana patients receive proper tests and can is a big challenge for two reasons. Cancer Care in lebanon ONS member Diana Skaff, RN, a cer is detected at earlier stages. First, the country has only two national Access to cancer care depends on pa centers for cancer treatment with four preceptor on the oncology floor at oncologists and few radiotherapists, American University of Beirut Medi tients’ health insurance status. About trained nurses, and other support staff. cal Center (AUBMC), faces similar 60% of patients have health insurance Second, the cost of treatment is high. If challenges working in Lebanon. The and are able to receive treatment, patients are eligible for national health incidence and prevalence of cancer in but AUBMC also provides outpatient insurance, it covers only surgical treat Lebanon continue to increase while at services for lowincome patients who treat have no insurance. ment and not chemotherapy because it is titudes about cancer remain diverse. Skaff says that the MOH performs Skaff says that many Lebanese have very expensive. The drugs are available only for those who can afford them, so an adequate understanding of cancer health awareness programs for can often “a switch is made to lessexpen because of campaigns by the MOH and cer screening in schools and medical less sive drugs, which may not be the best nongovernmental organizations, Inter facilities and uses TV campaigns and net availability, and increased cancer other media, but the population is not choice,” says Tagoe. The incidence of cancer is not well prevalence. Nevertheless, some still approached equally. Some campaigns 50 30 screening to promote documented inUKR. Ghana because the 40 can identify cancer as “taboo” and are also offer free 60 KAZAKHSTAN Krasnodar can Sevastopol' RUSSIA discuss it. awareness. Aral Because tobacco control cer registry was recently inaugurated. afraid to Constanta ¸ Sea Gora El'brus KAZAKHSTAN (highest point in “They do not even name it; they refer is a concern in Lebanon, the MOH Current data indicate that breast canm) can Europe, 5633 Aqtau CA UZBEKISTAN Varna U Groznyy (Aktau) Black Sea provides programs on that topic, as cer is the leading type of cancer for toCitSas ‘that disease,’” says Skaff. + A US Nukus Caspian MO Many Lebanese do not participate in well as ones on prostate, breast, and women, followed by cervicalSokhumi cancer, Am UN TA u Dasoguz Sea IN Bosporus GEORGIA S often is cervical cancer awareness. and prostate O (lowest point in D cancer is the leading type anbul Tbilisi Bat'umi cancer screening; their decisionm) GU Samsun Europe, -28 RA In general, says Skaff, “the staff 40 at for men. GhanaK Adoes have a cancer based on their educational level, back DE Bursa Sumqayit N I Z Trabzon Buxoro AZERBAIJAN people pres DAG ARMENIA Ankara Türkmenbasy are promoting tertiary health ¸ AUBMC TURKMENISTAN sup ground, and beliefs. Some LA ardanelles society and a national cancerR I sup Erzurum Yerevan Baku Balkanabat Türkmenabat Mount with port group called Reach for Recovery entArarat + latestage cancer symptoms care and educating people about AST rya Da ir TURKEY Kayseri Konya U K GARAGUM enizli T A O Antalya R S Icel ¸ (Mersin) Nicosia O M. UN TA IN Adana Van Diyarbakir Lake Van Gaziantep Mosul Arbil P Tabriz Lake Rasht Urmia EL BU RZ Zanjan Qazvin Z A P S E Ashgabat H D A G H Mary CYPRUS U MTS. Aleppo Latakia Hims ¸¸ Kuh-e ¯ Damavand ¯ + Mashhad Herat es rat ph Eu SYRIA Kirkuk Tehran Arak S Qom is Tigr ean Sea andria Beirut LEBANON Port Jerusalem Said Suez Canal Gaza Strip* ISRAEL Haifa Golan S Y R I A N Heights Damascus Baghdad Kermanshah G R AFG. T- O DA Al Jizah Cairo (lowest point in Asia, -408 m) Dead Sea Amman West Bank* E S E R T D IRAQ -¸ An Nasiriyah Al Basrah ¸ Esfahan ¸ U SH N Ahvaz -Abadan Kuwait T IRAN S M O E A -T LU I N Suez SINAI PENINSULA Al 'Aqabah JORDAN Kerman 30 Tabuk Gulf of Aqaba KUWAIT Shiraz Bushehr Bandar 'Abbas Strait of Hormuz Zahedan PAK. f Gulf o ez Su N Asyut Ha'il ¸- Hafar ¸ -¸al Batin Buraydah Al Jubayl Ad Dammam Dhahran PT Cancer Persian Gulf Luxor H E Manama BAHRAIN QATAR Aswan Yanbu' al Bahr ¸ Administrative Boundary Medina SAUDI ARABIA Riyadh Doha Abu Dhabi Dubai OMAN Gulf of Oman J A Muscat Z UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Hala'ib ¸ N D U E B I A R N T Jiddah SE Mecca B' A L A Red K H A LI OMAN February 2008 20 ONS CONNECT 13 U S
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