So many humans around the world have died battling cancer and we cannot even exhaust the list if we started. This post, however, is in memory of them and a few of the people who are known/popular are listed here . The list will be updated, if you have more people to add.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said about 24.6 million people live with cancer worldwide while about 12.5 percent of all death is attributable to cancer. It further estimates that over 100,000 Nigerians are diagnosed with cancer yearly, while about 80,000 die from the disease.

This brings the consequences of the cancer epidemic to 240 Nigerians every day or 10 Nigerians every hour, dying from cancer. It also means that the country’s cancer death ratio of 4 in 5 affected persons is one of the worst in the whole world.

Here is a profile of known Nigerians who died in the year 2016 after being diagnosed of the disease.

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http://healthjourno.com/2016/12/31/memoriam-nigerians-died-cancer-2016/

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