Trailblazing African Women Join Forces To Tackle Breast Cancer On The Continent

A group of African women leaders have come together to form the Africa Breast Cancer Council, with the support of Roche, one of the world’s largest biotech companies. The Council includes prominent Kenyan women: Dr Miriam Mutebi, Breast Cancer Surgical Oncologist at the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) in Nairobi, Kenya’s first female breast cancer surgeon, and Dorothy Nyong’o, First Lady of Kisumu County, Kenya, Managing Trustee of Africa Cancer Foundation. Dr Miriam Mutebi, Africa Breast Cancer Council member and Breast Cancer Surgical Oncologist at AKU said, “This Council has chosen to launch during Breast Cancer Awareness Month to start raising our collective voice, alongside others committed to reducing the unacceptable toll of breast cancer on African women. As the work progresses, we will be highlighting the critical gaps that different countries in Africa need to close, to speed up effective breast cancer diagnosis, treatment and survivorship.”