Professor Christian Agyare, Provost of the College of Health Sciences at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has praised Breast Care International (BCI) for its leadership in breast cancer awareness creation campaigns and support for victims.

He said for the past 23 years, BCI had been leading the campaigns and outreach programmes in creating awareness of the disease especially, in rural and deprived communities and offering support to victims.

Speaking at the launch of the 2025 BCI Ghana Walk for Cure in Kumasi, Professor Agyare pointed out that, BCI had worked over the years to demystify breast cancer and provided interventions needed by breast cancer patients to navigate through treatment and management.

He said the fight against breast cancer must not be seen as a personal battle, but rather, societal action needed to combat it.

Prof Agyare stressed the need for family members to offer the needed support to their breast cancer patients to enable them go through the treatment process in order to survive.

The BCI Ghana Walk for the Cure, is the largest breast cancer awareness event in Ghana and for the past 13 years, attracted hundreds of participants in almost all the major cities and towns in Ghana to create awareness of the disease, which was needlessly, claiming the lives of many women.

This year’s campaign, to be held on October 4, 2025, in Kumasi, is expected to attract 300,000 participants.

The Walk would be held on the theme: “A Cure Worth Fighting For.”

Dr Mrs Beatrice Wiafe Addai, President of BCI, said this year’s event marked a significant rebranding of BCI, after 23 years of tireless dedication to women’s health in Ghana, across Africa and globally.

She said the new brand identity reflected BCI’s continued growth, bold vision, and reinvigorated commitment to leading the charge against breast cancer.

“This is more than event. It’s a movement. It’s a family, it’s survivorship, it’s hope in motion.”

Dr Mrs Wiafe said over the years, BCI’s life-saving work had reached thousands through free breast cancer screenings, educational programmes, and early detection initiatives.

The annual walk for the cure, she said had become a national rallying point, bringing together, survivors, opinion and traditional leaders, government officials, health professionals, families, students and communities in one unified mission, which was to detect breast cancer.