{"id":189672,"date":"2025-01-26T04:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T02:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-records-45000-new-cancer-cases-annually-urges-shift-to-preventive-healthcare\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T04:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T02:21:23","slug":"kenya-records-45000-new-cancer-cases-annually-urges-shift-to-preventive-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-records-45000-new-cancer-cases-annually-urges-shift-to-preventive-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Records 45,000 New Cancer Cases Annually, Urges Shift to Preventive Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenya Records 45,000 New Cancer Cases Annually, Urges Shift to Preventive Healthcare<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Ministry of Health has reported that Kenya records 45,000 new cancer cases annually, with 29,000 deaths, underscoring the urgent need to shift the healthcare model from a curative approach to one that prioritizes prevention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Speaking at a cervical cancer awareness media briefing on Friday, Cabinet Secretary for Health, Debora Barasa, revealed that cervical cancer alone accounts for 5,845 new cases&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501240422.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya Records 45,000 New Cancer Cases Annually, Urges Shift to Preventive Healthcare The Ministry of Health has reported that Kenya records 45,000 new cancer cases annually, with 29,000 deaths, underscoring the urgent need to shift the healthcare model from a curative approach to one that prioritizes prevention. Speaking at a cervical cancer awareness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":189673,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,17933,6808,10498,12370,4688,430,257,11425,6850,13283,254,6810],"class_list":["post-189672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-annually","tag-cancer","tag-cases","tag-healthcare","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-preventive","tag-records","tag-shift","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"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\/189672","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}