F OR decades, the scourge of cancer has swept through the Nigerian populace and a diagnosis of cancer means certain death. According to the World Health Organisation, WHO, more than two million Nigerians have some form of invasive cancer, and an estimated 100,000 new cases are diagnosed annually, out of which at least 80,000 of those affected die.
So the involvement of the NSIA with the LUTH, is a deliberate effort to ignite a new era of comprehensive cancer treatment in Nigeria within the framework of global standards and sustained private sector partnership investment in the health sector. Establishment of the NSIA-LUTH Cancer Treatment Center brings to the doorstep of Nigerians, qualitative, and world-class cancer treatment .
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