'Inadequate screening treatment increase cervical cancer

• Published date: 22 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

Experts have said that the high burden of cervical cancer and the resultant number of deaths occurring among Nigerian women is attributable to poor access to effective screening, late presentation, and inadequate treatment in health services.

This was made known by the Director Research and Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Prof. Oliver Ezechi at the flag off of a Five Year Cervical Cancer Prevention

(Actions for Collaborative Community Engaged Strategies for Human Papilloma Virus) (ACCESS-HPV).

The project was organised by NIMR in collaboration with the Access to HPV Team comprising experts from St. Louis University, Missouri, the University of North Carolina and Monash University, Australia.

Cervical Cancer, Ezechi pointed out, is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among women in 36 countries including Nigeria.

'Also, 36 million women over 15 years in Nigeria are at risk of developing this cancer and 12,000 cases are diagnosed annually, with 8,000 deaths, translating to 33 new cervical cancer...