Why FG must expand cancer care fund, brachytherapy centres — Experts

•Say Nigeria requires at least 100 centresThe experts who spoke in Lagos at brachytherapy summit 2.0 organised by NSIA-Luth Cancer Centre, NLCC, said access to brachytherapy is plunging patients into more poverty stating that about 17,000 cervical cancer cases are seen in Nigeria every year.

“If you want to cure a lady that has cervical cancer, at the early stages one and two, you can’t do that without application of brachytherapy,” Habib added.Also speaking, the Centre Director of NLCC, Dr. Lilian Ekpo, noted that the Federal Government has made significant investments in cancer treatments but more was needed.

“There is an external beam which is delivered with a linear accelerator and there is an internal beam, which is the brachytherapy. NLCC is the first 3D brachytherapy treatment facility in the country,” she explained. On her part, the Radiation and Clinical Oncologist at the centre, Dr Bolanle Adegboyega, said the centre had the brachytherapy 2D but was not seeing enough results.

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