One woman dies every hour from cervical cancer -Statistics .
“A woman dies every hour from cervical cancer in Nigeria, while 10,000 other women succumb to breast cancer in a year,” says Rev. Cannon Kin Egwuonwu of the National Cancer Prevention Programme.
Egwuonwu, who presented the sordid statistics at the 2011 convention of the Nigerian Guild of Editors in Ikeja on Saturday, added that 14 Nigerian men also die from prostate cancer every day.
He noted that though the casualty figure was alarming, “most cancers are either preventable or curable”.
According to Egwuonwu, a third of cancers are curable, another one-third preventable, while victims have to live with the remaining one-third.
He advised that screening and early detection was crucial to controlling or curing cancers.
Egwuonwu explained also that there were anti-cancer vaccines for some form of cancer, and that these were available in Nigeria.
He decried the poor attention that cancer was receiving in the Nigerian media and appealed to practitioners to bring the issue to the front burner.
“Cancer kills more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined,” he stressed.
Egwuonwu said that the World Cancer Day coming up on Feb. 4 would be preceded with awareness campaigns and free cancer screening and advised Nigerians to take advantage of it.
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