In Nigeria, cancer screening is an added cost and inconvenience
The perception of cancer screening an added cost and inconvenience is one of the major reasons why past efforts to raise awareness for cancer and treatment options have not been ...
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Tag: cancer
New tools to help countries build effective childhood cancer programmes
A suite of tools to help countries improve diagnosis and treatment of cancer among children is being released today by the World Health Organization, on International Childhood Cancer Day. The ...
COVID-19 has partially or completely disrupted cancer programs – WHO
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a “profound” impact on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer around the world, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, before highlighting that ...
There is a new promising drug combination for melanoma
Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) have identified a potential drug combination to treat uveal melanoma, a type of eye cancer. Lead ...
How to save 7 million lives from cancer
The World Health Organization (WHO) today spells out the need to step up cancer services in low and middle-income countries. WHO warns that, if current trends continue, the world will ...
NHIS promises to increase support to cancer patients in Nigeria
The Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof Mohammed Sambo has expressed the scheme's readiness to increase support it is providing to patients that are living with cancer. According ...
Whole body MRI may help to detect spread of cancers more quickly
Trials with people with newly-diagnosed colorectal and non-small cell lung cancer suggest that whole body MRI could reduce the time it takes to diagnose the stage of cancers. The results ...
New strategy for treating multiple forms of cancerous tumors
Locking a biochemical gate that admits fuel into immune-suppressing cells could slow tumor progression and assist the treatment of multiple cancers, says new research from the Wistar Institute, the University ...
New clue explains why cancer patients respond differently to same treatment
A sketch of the mitochondria Researchers from Mount Sinai and IBM have discovered a novel clue in explaining how cancer cells with identical genomes can respond differently to the same ...
Nigeria is buying radiotherapy machines but most patients cannot afford cancer drugs
Cancer treatment does not end with radiotherapy, patients must also take drugs which are very expensive. How is Nigeria dealing with this? Paul Adepoju reports Mid January 2019, Nigeria's health ...
