MANAGEMENT OF PROSTATE CANCER IN ACCRA, GHANA.

Introduction: Africans living with prostate cancer in Africa face problems of early diagnosis and appropriate treatment.

Aim: To study the clinical incidence of prostate cancer, risk factors, TNM stage, their management and outcomes.

Methods: A prospective study of Prostate Cancer cases managed at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital and hospitals in Accra, diagnosed by history, abnormal PSA/DRE, physical examination and histologically confirmed by biopsy from 2004 to 2013 was carried out.

Outcomes after Radical Prostatectomy in Ghanaians: A Surgeon's Early Experience.

Background. There is a lack of expertise in the procedure of open radical retropubic prostatectomy in West Africa therefore necessitating the training of urologists in the subregion in this procedure. Aim.

Porcine anaesthesia for advanced trauma operative management (atom).

Anaesthesia has been provided for pigs for the Advanced Trauma Operative Management Course which was first held at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in February 2005. As of January 2006, 16 animals have been anaesthetized. Acepromazine (1mg/kg) and atropine (0.