Growing cervical cancer cases in Nigeria

If there is any disease mostly dreaded by Nigerian women, it is cervical cancer. Available statistics show that more than 100,000 women die every year in Nigeria from the disease, even as this is particularly tragic because the vast majority of the cervical cancer deaths in the country are preventable. According to Professor Oladapo Walker of the Department of Pharmacology, Babcock University, Ilisan Remo Ogun State, the increasing spread of the disease is traceable to poverty of ideas and mind of the victims. The medical expert revealed that the disease has a long gestation period of no less than 20The post Growing cervical cancer cases in Nigeria appeared first on Daily Times Nigerian Newspaper.
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