The most painful thing about this news is not the fact one woman out 25 di-s of cancer but the fact that the government would never do anything about this, its very sad that they won't help the situation, we've got very poor medical facilities and no one wants to improve them.
The Medical Director, Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Dr Femi Olaleye, on Friday said breast cancer k-lled one in every 25 Nigerian women.
He made this known on Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. “The incidence of breast cancer is one in 25, but because we don’t screen our population, it’s actually a death sentence."
In other parts of the world, once you’re a woman, that one in 25 is picked up early, procedures are done to quickly stop that cancer from k-lling her. “So, it doesn’t k-ll as much as it is k-lling here.”
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared breast cancer as the number one cancer scourge afflicting human beings.WHO says, “One in eight women are at risk of having breast cancer in their lifetime, (a diagnosis of breast cancer is made every other minute)."
Here in Nigeria, most of the diagnoses are made when it is too late, thereby leading to several needless and painful deaths of our beloved moms, sisters, aunts, friends, colleagues. “Breast cancer is currently the most common cancer in Nigeria."
One or two in every 25 Nigerian women are at risk of breast cancer, but higher risks exist for women who are older than 45, older than 30 at birth of their first child, and women with family history."
Olaleye said that breast and cervix cancers were the two most common cancers that affect women.He urged women to go for breast and cervix cancer screening every year to prevent untimely deaths.
Olaleye said that the screening was just a five to 10 minutes procedure that medical practitioners in the primary healthcare centres could be trained to do.
Question is will the government listen, we they train the medical practitioners, May Lord God help us.
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