(Photo: James Omoro/Standard)Parliament is seeking to enact legislation to compel the authorities to ensure cancer treatment is part of primary healthcare. The Cancer Prevention and Control (Amendment) Bill, 2016 also seeks the promotion of e-health and telemedicine in the prevention and treatment of cancer and the treatment of persons with cancer as a component of primary healthcare. Under the proposed law, the National Cancer Institute will have an additional task of promoting e-services, which could revolutionise cancer treatment in Kenya. “The Bill seeks to expand the scope and functions of the National Cancer Institute to include the promotion of the use of eHealth and eMedicine in the treatment of cancer patients as primary healthcare,” the proposed law states. Leading typesAmong the leading types of cancer in the country are breast cancer in both men and women and prostate cancer.

Source: Standard Digital January 26, 2017 21:07 UTC