A professor of surgery at the University of Ghana Medical School, Professor Jonathan Dakubo, has disclosed that close to 2,000 Ghanaians die from colorectal cancer annually.
Speaking in an interview on Joy News monitored by GhanaWeb on Monday, March 31, 2025, he further disclosed that Ghana records between 3,000 and 4,000 new cases of the disease annually.
He stated that the preventable and treatable nature of colorectal cancer makes every life lost unacceptable. "In Ghana, we see about 3,000 to 4,000 new cases every year.
And about 1500, 2000 people in this country die every year.
