cancer

Women have been advised to mobilize for collective actions to prevent death from cervical cancer. The advice was given by the Executive Chairman of Itire-Ikate Local Council Development Area, Hon. (Dr) Ahmed Olanrewaju Apatira, at a free…

​Federal Government has acknowledged the effort of Kebbi State Government for taking the lead to develop Cancer Control Plan and Launch Indigent Cancer Patient Fund. ​The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire made this known this…

A call has gone to females between age 18 and above to embark on regular self-examination of their breast and report noticeable unusual differences to nearby medical facilities to ward off cancer in its early stage. In a release by the…

A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $2.1 billion to women who claimed the company's talc-based products caused their ovarian cancer, New York Times reports. The decision by the Eastern District…

A mother-of-two had a double mastectomy and endured months of chemotherapy in the United Kingdom before doctors admitted they had misdiagnosed her with breast cancer Sarah Boyle was told she had triple-negative breast cancer in 2016 and…

Wife of a former governor of Oyo State and patron of the Access to Basic medical Care (ABC) Foundation, Mrs Florence Ajimobi, has called the attention of women to the importance of early screening for breast cancer, warning that breast…

Prostate cancer patients could be cured in as little as a week with new high-dose targeted radiotherapy, Mirror Online reported on Wednesday September 18, 2019. In trials, tumours were wiped out within days with treatment times slashed…

Members of the House of Representatives have expressed support for the establishment of cancer registry across Nigeria. The proposed bill sponsored by Hon. Ossai Nichola Ossai, chairman, House Committee on Treaties, Agreements and…

NO fewer than 500 women have benefited from a free-breast-cancer screening in Ilorin in order to curb its prevalence. Dr Yemisi Adeyeye, the Medical Director of Lifefount Hospital, told journalists that there was the need for women to be…

PROJECT Pink Blue, a non-profit organisation, says that prostate cancer treatment remains a huge burden to Nigerian men who were diagnosed with the ailment. Mr Runcie Chidebe, Executive Director of the organisation, said this in a…