BY BUKOYE OLUWAFUNSO
Cancer has become a bitter pill for many human beings to swallow. According to world health report not fewer than five million women and six million men worldwide are yearly affected with this disease. Besides, experts have revealed that over 50 percent of cancer patients living in developing countries have less than 10 percent resources required for treatment.
In Nigeria, not less than 100,000 cases of cancer are recorded yearly which will increase to 500,000 by 2010. Cancer is a malignant tumor or growth caused when cells multiply uncontrollably destroying health tissues. There are various myriads of cancer which includes breast cancer, cervix cancer, lung cancer, prostrate cancer among others.
According to Ministry of Health, not less than 7,000-10,000 new cases of breast cancer are recorded yearly in Nigeria. Globally, more than 400,000 deaths are recorded of female cancer. Breast cancer has rendered many women deformed and there is less than 20% assurance of cure. Also more than 20 cases are reported daily in general hospitals daily.
Another deadly form of cancer raging the country is cervical cancer. It is caused by Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease which is linked to 99.7 percent cases. At University of Ibadan, college of Medicine, not less than 10,000 cases are reported ever year. Not fewer than 8000 will die from cervical cancer every year usually in a painful miserable and undignified manner. Unfortunately, not less than 80% of the affected women in Nigeria are still present in the advance stages where little could be done to prolong their lives. Dr. James Adisa, a medical laboratory scientist added that, worldwide there are more than 273,000 deaths from cervical cancer each year and it account s for 9 percent of female cancer deaths. Mortality rate vary seventeen fold between the developed and developing regions of the world. Cervical cancer contribute over 2.7 million years of life lost among women between ages of 25 and 64 worldwide, some 2.4 million of which occur in developing areas and only 0.3 million in developed country.
Education, awareness, prevention, screening, early detention, available and affordable multimodality treatment, chemotherapy and radiation have decreased mortality and increased survival for breast and cervical cancer in most countries. Women are advised to do regular checkup and detection should be reported immediately and necessary tests carried out.
In Nigeria, not less than 100,000 cases of cancer are recorded yearly which will increase to 500,000 by 2010. Cancer is a malignant tumor or growth caused when cells multiply uncontrollably destroying health tissues. There are various myriads of cancer which includes breast cancer, cervix cancer, lung cancer, prostrate cancer among others.
According to Ministry of Health, not less than 7,000-10,000 new cases of breast cancer are recorded yearly in Nigeria. Globally, more than 400,000 deaths are recorded of female cancer. Breast cancer has rendered many women deformed and there is less than 20% assurance of cure. Also more than 20 cases are reported daily in general hospitals daily.
Another deadly form of cancer raging the country is cervical cancer. It is caused by Human Papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease which is linked to 99.7 percent cases. At University of Ibadan, college of Medicine, not less than 10,000 cases are reported ever year. Not fewer than 8000 will die from cervical cancer every year usually in a painful miserable and undignified manner. Unfortunately, not less than 80% of the affected women in Nigeria are still present in the advance stages where little could be done to prolong their lives. Dr. James Adisa, a medical laboratory scientist added that, worldwide there are more than 273,000 deaths from cervical cancer each year and it account s for 9 percent of female cancer deaths. Mortality rate vary seventeen fold between the developed and developing regions of the world. Cervical cancer contribute over 2.7 million years of life lost among women between ages of 25 and 64 worldwide, some 2.4 million of which occur in developing areas and only 0.3 million in developed country.
Education, awareness, prevention, screening, early detention, available and affordable multimodality treatment, chemotherapy and radiation have decreased mortality and increased survival for breast and cervical cancer in most countries. Women are advised to do regular checkup and detection should be reported immediately and necessary tests carried out.
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