The Public Health consultant to University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Dr Bodeno Ehis, has disclosed that at least 100,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed yearly in Nigeria.

Ehis, who disclosed the statistics while delivering his lecture in honour of a late Delta State lawmaker, Omawunmi Udoh, in Warri, titled: “Cancer Awareness and Prevention, said more than 16 million new cases of cancer would be diagnosed globally by 2020.

The medical expert who is also a Fellow, National Post Graduate Medical College, Lagos, stated that the figure accounted for 12.5 per cent globally.

He advised Nigerians to live a healthy lifestyle to overcome the global life-threatening disease that was ravaging the world, adding that eating foods rich in fibre was one of such.

Ehis also recommended routine medical checks, insisting that early detection of cancer was the solution to overcoming the global scourge.

He lamented that breast and cervical cancers were prevalent among women while prostate cancer was common in men, saying, the women, depending on their ages, should do a mammogram once or twice in a year.

“Cancer can be prevented if detected early enough, therefore, people should carry out checks at least once in a year, while also doing regular exercises,’’ he advised.

The consultant urged Federal and State governments to intensified its sensitisation on the epidemic to reduce the scourge in the country.

Earlier, the organiser of the event, Rep. Daniel Reyenieju, representing Warri Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, said the gathering was aimed at interacting and sharing ideas on topical issues on health and politics.

He described the late Udoh as a “Legislative Amazon’’ that would forever be missed in the politics of the Delta.

http://www.metronaija.com/2017/03/nigeria-records-100000-cancer-cases.html

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Ok

In a country where the president has cancer
Imagine the citizenry .....

Drversatile:
Ok

Nothing is ok about this news
How many can afford a London hospital like the president .....

That's why Buhari feels less concerned about the delapitated health institutions in the country

Really?