Nigeria: High Cost of Few Cancer Screening, Treatment Centres Reduces Patients' Survival Chances

7 February 2019

Mrs Nwabufo Chika, (fondly nicknamed 'Ika') has been a breast cancer survivor for six years. Unfortunately, last year November, the cancer spread to her spine... . and affected her walking.

Through the continued assistance of Breast Without Spot (BWS), a non governmental organization (NGO), she received an emergency radiotherapy at Abuja that cost N450,000, following a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan.

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