Melanoma can spread quickly : Campaign urges public to get health concerns checked
The Your Health Matters campaign, which is being backed by sports commentator Marty Morrissey, aims to increase awareness of the importance of early detection
The Your Health Matters campaign is being backed by sports commentator Marty Morrissey. Picture: Andres Poveda
Wed, 03 Feb, 2021 - 16:20
Steve Neville
A 46-year-old woman who underwent skin cancer treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of early detection as part of an Irish Cancer Society campaign urging people to contact their doctor if they are concerned about symptoms that may indicate cancer.
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, including Nigeria, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The global health agency estimates that over eight million people die of cancer annually and it is acclaimed the second leading cause of death globally.
The disease is responsible for 72,000 deaths in Nigeria every year, with an annual estimated 102,000 new cases, according to the Nigeria National Cancer Prevention and Control Plan (2018-2022).
The top five cancer burdens in Nigeria are prostate, liver, non-hodgkin’s lymphoma, colorectal and pancreatic for male and breast, cervical, liver, colorectal and non-hodgkin’s lymphoma for the female.
Of these, breast and cervical cancers are responsible for approximately 50.3 per cent of all cancers in Nigeria.
Importance of Cancer Screening
| 16 Dec 2020 6:14 AM GMT
Cancer screening plays a critical role in early detection and treatment of the ailment. The report of National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP)-2020 has listed breast, cervix, and cervix uteri among the leading anatomical sites of women in the north-eastern States. The fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), 2019-20 reveals that the region has much to do in early detection of cancer among adult women. The NFHS-5 phase-I data show that the screening for cancer in these anatomical sites among women in the region is quite low. In Assam, only 0.2 per cent of women in the age group of 30 to 49 years have ever gone for screening test of cervical cancer, 0.2 per cent have undergone breast examination for cancer while 0.2 per cent women in the age group have undergone oral cavity examination for oral cancer in the State. When it comes to the rural areas in Assam, only 0.1 per cent of women have ever gone for
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According to the WHO, cancer is the second leading cause of death. But, did you know that you can prevent a certain cancer by just a vaccine? Most types of cervical cancers can be prevented by the HPV vaccine. Though it is mostly 100% preventable, cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in Sri Lanka. WHO states that in 2018, an estimated 570 000 women were diagnosed with the disease globally while 311 000 women died of it. According to Dr Sachini Rasnayake, Senior Lecturer at the University Hospital at the Kothalawala Defence University and Consultant Oncologist, cervical cancer used to be the second or third most common cancer in developed countries few decades ago. “But now, with mandatory national screening for all females of the age of 21 and above, the incidence of cervical cancer has decreased in those countries,” Dr. Rasnayake revea
Breast cancer breakthrough may reduce use of chemotherapy Trial results suggest hormone therapy more suitable for many postmenopausal women
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About 3,000 breast cancer cases are detected in Ireland each year, of which about 70 per cent are at the early stage. Photograph: iStock
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New research indicates the great majority of postmenopausal women with one of the most common forms of early-stage breast cancer can be spared unnecessary chemotherapy and receive only hormone therapy.