Cancer kills 8.8m people, costs N522tr yearly, says WHO

About 8.8 million people die every year from cancer, mostly in low and middle-income countries because cancer cases are diagnosed too late. This is coming as the total annual economic cost of cancer through healthcare expenditure and loss of productivity was estimated at $1.16 trillion (N522 trillion). According to new guidance from the World Health…

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National Cancer Prevention Programme floats Mobile Cancer Centres, raises hope of sufferers

The National Cancer Prevention Programme (NCPP), a Non Governmental Initiative of mass medical mission, is currently scaling up its impact by establishing a structured and organised, mobile system of preventive cancer care and health promotion, through the use of Mobile Cancer Centres (MCC). According to a statement issued in Lagos by Dr. Abia Nzelu of…

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Expert calls for more awareness on grassroots on cancer screening

  An Ocular Oncologist, Abia Nzelu, has called for more awareness programmes with immediate intervention in the fight against cancer to stem the death rate. Nzelu, who is also an Ocular Oncologist, made the remark in her presentation at a Summit of “Journalist Against Cancer in Nigeria (JaCiN)’’ to commemorate the World Cancer Day in…

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NCC joins NCE, NCCP to campign for cancer awareness, prevention

The Nigerian Communications Commission is collaborating with the National Cancer Prevention Programme, NCPP, an NGO, and the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, in a month_long activity to raise awareness on prevention of cancer and its treatment in Nigeria. This campaign is also aimed at raising funds from good corporate citizens for the establishment of cancer…

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100,000 Cases of Cancer diagnosed in Nigeria, yearly-WHO

It is no longer news that one of the health issues currently ravaging the country is cancer, which unfortunately kills 10 Nigerians per hour or 240 persons per day. What seems to be the news, according to available statistics is that this figure will double in the nearest decade if nothing is done to reduce…

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