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Nigeria: New Guidelines to Prevent, Screen, Treat Cervical Cancer
Daily Trust, 30 June 2018
The Society of Gynaecology & Obstetrics of Nigeria (SOGON) has launched the first-ever national guidelines for screening and detection of cervical cancer. Read more »
Nigeria to Use New Guidelines to Screen, Treat Cervical Cancer
The Society of Gynaecology & Obstetrics of Nigeria has launched its first-ever national guidelines for screening and detection of cervical cancer. This will be the first time Nigeria will use country-specific guideline in dealing with cervical cancer as it has borrowed guidelines from the US, UK, and Australia up until now. Cervical cancer is the fourth most frequent cancer in women accounting for over 270,000 deaths in 2015 worldwide.
Nurse Rehema Nkomola examines a woman for cervical cancer. Global deaths from cervical cancer have increased 40% since 1990, to 266,000 (file photo).
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20 July 2018
The Diseases Africans Need To Be Worrying About
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Most African countries are putting measures in place to prevent deaths from noncommunicable diseases like cancer. Tanzania is injecting funding to ... see more »
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Minister for Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children Ummy Mwalimu has announced that Tanzania will provide cervical cancer vaccination starting in April 2018, ... Read more »
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According to the World Health Organisation cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women. The high mortality rate from cervical cancer globally could be reduced through ... Read more »
