Cervical cancer
20 Oct 2023
The Defence and Police Officers Wives Association (DEPOWA), yesterday, embarked on a sensitisation campaign for school girls in military and police schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on cervical cancer prevention. The programme was organised as part of three-day Medical Outreach by the association to mark the Cancer Awareness Month. President of DEPOWA, Mrs.…
28 Aug 2023
Technical Officer, World Health Organisation (WHO), for Human Papillomavirus (NPV) in Bauchi State, Mustapha Umar, has said that vaccination against cervical cancer will avert 71,000 deaths among Nigerian women, yearly. Umar said this in Bauchi, at the weekend, during a stakeholders' meeting organised by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Integrated Health Programme (IHP),…
11 Jul 2023
Though preventable, cervical cancer kills 22 women in Nigeria daily. This was the conclusion of medical experts brought together by National Institute of Medical Researchers (NIMR), Yaba, Lagos, at the weekend.
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Nigeria has a substantial cancer epidemic, with breast, cervical, prostate, and liver cancers being the most prevalent types. According to the GLOBOCAN report for 2020, Nigeria accounted for 11 per cent of all new cancer cases in Africa.
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