Dealing with the cancer scourge guardian.ng - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from guardian.ng Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WOMEN AS CHALLENGERS OF THE STATUS QUO (A clarion call to mark IWD & Mothering Sunday 2021)
WOMEN AS CHALLENGERS OF THE STATUS QUO (A clarion call to mark IWD & Mothering Sunday 2021)
Globally, March is a landmark month for women. March 8 is International Women’s Day (IWD) and Mothering Sunday will be celebrated on March 14 in Nigeria, as in many other nations. Both IWD and Mothering Sunday celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women and also signifies a call to action to overcome all the challenges faced by women, including mothers.
The theme for IWD 2021 is: ‘Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.’ The campaign hashtags for this year is #ChooseToChallenge. This hashtag highlights the fact that a challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change and urges all to #ChooseToChallenge.
World Cancer Day 2021 (triennial grand finale): Our personal and concerted actions against cancer matter! guardian.ng - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from guardian.ng Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
• Patients with cancer face reduced access to care, competition for scarce resources
• Breast cancer costs N18m out-of-pocket for initial treatment
• About 200 Nigerians die every day from cancer, with 32 from breast cancer, 28 from cervical cancer, 16 from prostate cancer, 14 from liver cancer
As nations mark World Cancer Day today, there are concerns that COVID-19 has further reduced the chances of survival of cancer patients.
Reports from the World Health Organisation (WHO), Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and cancer experts indicate that COVID-19 raises death risk in cancer patients.
UICC, in a paper published, yesterday, in the medical journal, The Lancet Oncology, ahead of the World Cancer Day titled “Cancer burden, finance, and health-care systems” said less prevention, delayed treatment and suspended early detection programmes and diagnoses, caused by COVID-19, could lead to a higher number of deaths from cancer in months and years to come.
GivingTide International has thrown its weight behind the big war against cancer with the goal of establishing the first Comprehensive Cancer Centre (CCC) in Nigeria.
A statement by the non-profit organisation said it is launched the Global Good Tuesday, the day that kicks off a tide of year-round giving (the ‘giving tide’) towards increasing access to cancer care in the country.
The Executive Secretary of the organisation, Dr. Abia Nzelu, kicked off the campaign, which involved accepting donations from individuals and corporate bodies to the GivingTide Global Trust, slated for December 1.
The statement stated that the first Tuesday in December is generally accepted as the Global Good Tuesday annually, adding that the GivingTide Global Trust is managed by FBNQuest Trustees.