Cancer is bad news everywhere but not a death sentence. This is evident in the case of Mrs Agnes Ola, who in 1983 as a nursingmother noticed a lump in her left breast which later metamorphosed in 2009 to cancer of the breast.
The discovery of the lump first was like the end of her life. She was enveloped in the world of fear. She became afraid and needed to hear something different from her friends.

Fear, confusion and denial, set in. Her mind was in turmoil. Although it was just a lump that was discovered then, she was hoping there would be other solution apart from operating on the breast since she was nursing a four – month old baby.
Out of fear, Agnes resorted to all sorts of concoctions and almost lost her life in the process. She went back to hospital where the lump was removed.

However, in August 2008, the problem resurfaced and in January, 2009, the second lump was removed and diagnosis of cancer was confirmed. Then the treatment started.
Cancer is a tumour or growth caused when cells multiply uncontrollably, destroying healthy tissues. Ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, prostrate cancer and breast cancer are among the most common type of cancer in Nigeria.

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“Breast cancer is a malignant (cancerous) growth that begins in the tissues of the breast. Cancer is a disease in which abnormal cells grow in an uncontrolled way. It is the most common cancer in women, but it can also appear in men. According to Professor O. Olopade, a Breast Cancer specialist and director of the Cancer Risk Clinic in the departments of medicine and human genetics at the University of Chicago Hospitals:”The five-year survival rate for breast cancer patients in the United States exceeds 85 percent, in Nigeria it is a dismal 10 percent; Cancer awareness, even among physicians, and much more so among women at risk, needs an enormous boost in Nigeria,"

Epidemiology of Breast Cancer in Nigeria:[i][/i]

Breast Cancer constitutes a major public health issue globally with over 1 million new cases diagnosed annually, resulting in over 400,000 annual deaths and about 4.4 million women living with the disease. It also affects one in eight women during their lives.It is the commonest site specific malignancy affecting women and the most common cause of cancer mortality in women worldwide. It is also found in men but not very common. Statistics available in Nigeria are largely unreliable because of many factors that have not allowed adequate data collection and documentation.