World Cancer Day: Patients lament treatment gaps in Nigeria

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Only one radiotherapy machine functional in North – Expert ‘Nigeria has only 90 cancer specialists’ By Ojoma Akor (Abuja) Zahraddeen Yakubu

‘Nigeria has only 90 cancer specialists’Ado Abubakar Musa Mohammed Ibrahim Yaba Risikat Ramoni suffering from cancer are lamaenting the poor access to care because of the inadequate number of treatment centres, cancer specialists and high costs of treatment in the country.

 

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