{"id":7907,"date":"2020-02-04T08:35:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T05:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7907"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:50","slug":"what-needs-to-happen-for-better-cancer-prevention-and-control-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/02\/04\/what-needs-to-happen-for-better-cancer-prevention-and-control-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"What Needs To Happen For Better Cancer Prevention And Control In Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Gershim Asiki<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.3322\/caac.21492\">leading<\/a>&nbsp;in new cancer cases in Africa. In 2018 Kenya was reported&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.3322\/caac.21492\">to have<\/a>&nbsp;47 887 new cancer cases (130 cases daily) and 32 987 deaths (90 daily). This marked a 30% rise&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.3322\/caac.21262\">since<\/a>&nbsp;2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cancer is now&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcrc.net\/pdfs\/Kenya-National-Cancer-Control-strategy.pdf\">the third<\/a>&nbsp;leading cause of death after infectious and heart diseases in the East African nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what\u2019s going wrong?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/newsplex\/cancertrends\/2718262-5351142-eneblaz\/index.html\">rapid rise<\/a>\u00a0in cancer cases can be attributed to major societal and environmental changes that have occurred in the past few decades. These include excessive drinking, cigarette smoking, lack of exercise, poor diet,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/africa-needs-a-fresh-approach-to-lifestyle-diseases-research-66527\">obesity<\/a>\u00a0and exposure to environmental carcinogens, like air pollution. Another big risk factor is infectious agents that contribute to cancer such as the human papillomavirus \u2013\u00a0responsible for\u00a0more than 90% of the cervical cancer burden. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-needs-to-happen-for-better-cancer-prevention-and-control-in-kenya-130966\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gershim Asiki Kenya, South Africa and Zimbabwe are&nbsp;leading&nbsp;in new cancer cases in Africa. In 2018 Kenya was reported&nbsp;to have&nbsp;47 887 new cancer cases (130 cases daily) and 32 987&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}