Experts push early detection, integrated lifestyle to reverse Nigeria’s bitter cancer harvest - NaijaAgroNet

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Despite years of intense awareness campaigns, Nigeria’s cancer burden remains a devastating public health crisis. Late detection continues to drive a high mortality rate across the nation, especially within rural and semi-urban communities where healthcare access is heavily restricted, reports NaijaAgroNet.

At a high-level advocacy event held in Lagos, medical experts and reproductive health advocates made a passionate plea to women across the country to prioritize routine clinical screenings and reject the cultural hesitations that delay medical intervention until the disease advances to irreversible stages 3 and 4.

Nigeria: Stakeholders urged to collaborate on early warning mechanisms - NaijaAgroNet

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Nigerian stakeholders have been urged to collaborate on early warning and response mechanisms, reports NaijaAgroNet.

The Office for Strategic Preparedness and Resilience (OSPRE), a center for the coordination of early warning and response mechanisms in Nigeria gave this charge at the end of a two-day inaugural summit and technical workshop in Abuja.