The construction of a $100 million comprehensive cancer centre to help stem the tide against the disease in Ghana and Africa at large has taken off at Kwaso in the Eji­su Municipality of the Ashanti Region.

Sited on a 52-acre of land, the Centre is named Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Comprehensive Cancer Centre of Excellence (CCCoE), in honour of the Asantehene.

The five-year project is being funded by Breast Care Internation­al (BCI), Peace and Love Hospitals, Global Health Catalyst, and the University of Pennsylvania, in the United States of America (USA).

A representative of the As­antehene, Nana (Prof.) Ohene­ba Boachie-Adjei Woahene II, Otumfuo Hiahene, cut the sod for the construction work to begin on Friday.