ONCOLOGY TRAINING FOR COMMUNITY BASED NURSES AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS

In addition, since Ghana has no specialized oncology nursing school to train students, BCI has introduce a training programme for selected general nurses across the country to professionally equip them both in theory and practice in modern management of breast cancer and other cancers in their health institutions. It is anticipated that upon successful completion of the training he participants would be able to better educate members in their communities on the prevention of some types of cancers, self detection of symptoms of breast cancer, importance of early detection, and how and when to refer suspected cases to the appropriate health institutions.