cancer

By Ibrahim Yakubu: As the world celebrates this year's International Cancer Day, a team of 10 medical experts comprising doctors and nurses has embarked on a sensitization campaign to persons with disability as well as…

Many cancer patients are referred to overseas by the Nigerian hospitals due to poor healthcare in the country. Odimegwu Onwumere writes that from the victims’ bank accounts they make public for assistance from good spirited individuals and…

By Amos Tauna Kaduna (Nigeria) - Government and Non-Governmental Organisations as well as Civil Society organisations in the country  have been urged to device ways of ensuring that Cancer awareness campaigns are taken to the rural…

By Amos Tauna Kaduna, (Nigeria)-- Sage Foundation in partnership with the Bricon Foundation, Nigeria-based non-profit organisations are to raise about N3.6 million to support cancer patients that cannot afford medical treatment. The…

Cairo (Egypt) - As part of the national program for early breast cancer checks, 180,000 women older than 40 have been examined for free since October 2007, the Health Ministry declared. Advisor to the Health Minister, Abeer al-Maghawry,…