cancer

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…

THE Wife of Niger state governor, Dr Amina Bello, has been appointed by the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, to serve as a member of the Expert Group for the Elimination of Cervical Cancer…

PROF. Joshua Obaleye of the Department of Chemistry, University of Ilorin, says his team has discovered anti-malaria, anti-cancer and anti-tuberculosis drugs that can be mass-produced to save lives. Obaleye told newsmen in Ilorin that the…

Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa on Thursday inaugurated a cancer centre in memory of his late mother, Mrs Goldcoast Dickson in Toro-Orua, Sagbama Local Government Area.Speaking at the event, Dickson said the centre would undertake…

THE Onyebuchi Chris Ifediora Foundation (OCIF), a charity organisation, has solicited the collaboration of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, in the fight against breast and cervical cancer in Anambra. The foundation’s Legal…

Dr Emmanuel Azuike, a Consultant Public Health Physician at the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka in Anambra, says alcohol drinkers and cigarette smokers have a high risk of breast cancer.Azuike made the…

Dr Usman Shanawa, a Consultant Gynaecologist at Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau, says the number of women with cancer is increasing in Zamfara.Shanawa, who is the acting Medical Director of the hospital, made the revelation at…

A scientist, Dr Rose Gidado has said that with the advanced biotechnology which is called Gene Editing, some terminal disease like cancer, and the sickle cell can be cured permanently without introducing a foreign gene into the patient.…