{"id":181749,"date":"2024-10-03T05:14:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-breast-cancer-will-be-a-ticking-bomb-if-nothing-is-done-cancer-association-of-namibia\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T05:14:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:14:18","slug":"namibia-breast-cancer-will-be-a-ticking-bomb-if-nothing-is-done-cancer-association-of-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-breast-cancer-will-be-a-ticking-bomb-if-nothing-is-done-cancer-association-of-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Breast Cancer Will Be a Ticking Bomb, If Nothing Is Done &#8211; Cancer Association of Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Namibia recorded 3453 cancer cases overall, with 533 cases of breast cancer, making it one of the leading cancers in the country, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) through the Global Cancer Observatory (GLOBOCAN) data in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Furthermore, it was projected that by 2050, there will be more than 1100 new breast cancer cases annually if urgent interventions are not publicly available soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">This Breast Cancer Awareness month of October, The Cancer Association of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410020060.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia recorded 3453 cancer cases overall, with 533 cases of breast cancer, making it one of the leading cancers in the country, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) through the Global Cancer Observatory (GLOBOCAN) data in 2022. Furthermore, it was projected that by 2050, there will be more than 1100 new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,5735,1185,15486,6808,4706,724,257,254,30249],"class_list":["post-181749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-association","tag-bomb","tag-breast","tag-cancer","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ticking"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}