cancer

Speak4life Cancer Prevention Initiative (SCPI) and Arewa Youth Trust Foundation (AYTF) have urged Nigerians to show care, love and compassion to cancer victims in the country. The Executive Officers of SCPI and AYTF, Miss Malextive…

Chief Medical Director, University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Professor Abiodun Otegbayo has said cancer remains one of the top killer diseases in the hospital in the last three years. Professor Otegbayo made the disclosure at the…

The Phillips Consulting (PCl) has examined the socio-economic impact of cancer in an extensive study in Nigeria, in a report where it said responses were gathered from thousands of Nigerian Cancer victims or caregivers, family and friends,…

WIFE of Oyo State Governor, Mrs Florence Ajimobi has charged the general public not to take cancer diagnosis as a death sentence, rather, they should encourage patients to seek adequate medical attention to survive the scourge. Ajimobi…

A nutritionist, Mrs Toyin Aliu at the College of Health Technology, Offa, Kwara, has said that the consumption of rotten tomatoes, popularly known as ‘esa’, could cause cancer. Aliu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone…

THE Executive Director, Project Pink Blue, Mr Runcie Chidebe, has urged the Federal Government to declare cancer as a national emergency and establish more centres with functional for cancer management. Chidebe made the appeal in an…

PROF Titus Ibekwe, Consultant Surgeon, Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, has warned that cell phone addiction causes noise-induced hearing loss. Ibekwe gave the warning in an interview…

IMPORTERS of school uniform materials into Nigeria have been warned about some cancer-causing substances found in some school uniform materials made by two China-based companies, Sing Shun Fat School-Clothier Company and Zenith Uniform…

FORMER Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi, Prof Abdulmumini Rafindadi says out of 102,000 cases of cancer recorded annually, 72,000 die. Rafindadi, a Professor of pathology at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, made…

TARGETED at controlling cancer incidences, the Oyo State Government, on Tuesday, kick-started a five years plan that will see the establishment of 165 cancer screening centres across the state that are capable of examining 500,000…