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All is set for the second in the series of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Ghana on Friday, May 25, 2012. About 15,000 participants including the Vice President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, are expected at this year�s event. Participants in this pioneering annual walk/race would all converge at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium, start the walk /race, through some principal streets of Kumasi and during which they would aim to raise awareness, by providing information on the disease. The Ghana Race, presented by leading Breast Cancer Awareness Creation and Research Organization in Ghana, Breast Care International, which is headed by Dr. (Mrs.) Beatrice Wiafe-Addai,, is open to everyone. The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure� Series is the world�s largest and most successful education and fundraising event for breast cancer ever created. Started in 1983, the Komen Race for the Cure Series has grown from one Race with 800 people in Dallas, to a global series of more than 140 Races with 1.6 million people participating on four continents. One woman dies from breast cancer in every 69 seconds somewhere around the world. More than 1,300,000 women died from breast cancer globally in 2010, and 2062 women were diagnosed with the disease in Ghana, a country which ranks 10th in the burden of the disease in Africa (Globacan sources). However, breast cancer can be cured if it is diagnosed earlier. So join in the race and help raise awareness about the disease.