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News - March 19, 2017

100,000 new cancer cases recorded in Nigeria annually

Prof. Isaac Adewoye, Minister of Health

No fewer than 100,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed yearly in Nigeria, Dr Bodeno Ehis, Consultant, Public Health, University of Benin Teaching Hospital has said.

In a speech entitled: “Cancer Awareness and Prevention’’ at a lecture in honour of the late Mrs Omawunmi Udoh, a lawmaker in Delta State House of Assembly on Sunday in Warri, he observed that the figure accounted for 12.5 per cent globally.

The medical expert who is also a Fellow, National Post Graduate Medical College, Lagos, said more than 16 million new cases of cancer would be diagnosed globally by 2020.

He advised Nigerians to live a healthy lifestyle to overcome the global life-threatening disease that was ravaging the world, adding that eating foods rich in fibre was one of such.

He also recommended routine medical checks, insisting that early detection of cancer was the solution to overcoming the global scourge.

He explained that breast and cervical cancers were prevalent among women while prostate cancer was common in men.

“The women, depending on their ages, should do a mammogram once or twice in a year.

“Cancer can be prevented if detected early enough, therefore, people should carry out checks at least once in a year, while also doing regular exercises,’’ he advised.

The consultant urged government to do a lot of sensitisation on the epidemic to reduce the scourge.

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