A university don, Professor Oladipo Campbell has said that the poor knowledge and poverty of Nigerian women about the prevention and management of breast cancer is responsible for high level of prevalence of the disease in the country.
Campbell who presented a paper titled: ‘Breast Cancer Survival Strategies,’ as part of the activities marking the 2014 Radiology Faculty Day at the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, in Lagos recently, noted that Nigerian women are poorly informed about the killer breast cancer disease.
Campbell who presented a paper titled: ‘Breast Cancer Survival Strategies,’ as part of the activities marking the 2014 Radiology Faculty Day at the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, in Lagos recently, noted that Nigerian women are poorly informed about the killer breast cancer disease.
He said in 2008, there was a 23 per cent increase in breast cancer case, with 14 per cent deaths, noting that only five per cent of Nigerian women opted for mammography. He added that an Ibadan-based cancer awareness group had indicated that in the past few years, there has been fivefold increase in the country.
According to him, from the age of 20 to 39 years, an average woman is expected to do self-breast examination (SBE), while from age 40 to 59, they are expected to go a little further by applying clinical breast examination (CBE), while from age 60 and above, women are expected to go for mammography, stressing that there are powerful equipment such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), which can detect lumps at its best.
According to him, from the age of 20 to 39 years, an average woman is expected to do self-breast examination (SBE), while from age 40 to 59, they are expected to go a little further by applying clinical breast examination (CBE), while from age 60 and above, women are expected to go for mammography, stressing that there are powerful equipment such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), which can detect lumps at its best.
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