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The Ondo State Governor’s wife, Mrs. Betty Akeredolu, has urged for a more creative strategy to lessen the incidence of cancer in Nigeria.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!She revealed this in Ibadan at the Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria’s (BRECAN) 25th Anniversary and Fourth International Breast Cancer Symposium.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the “Close the care gap” event would take place from October 13 to October 15.
The incidence of cancer and mortality in the nation, according to Akeredolu, who is also the president of BRECAN, made it necessary for more creative cancer control programming.
According to her, reliable and full statistics are necessary to support more successful cancer control initiatives in Nigeria and other Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
She contends that information must inform efforts to combat cancer, from behavioural science to biological research.
Data, according to the governor’s wife, is crucial and an effective planning tool.
The BRECAN president claimed that it was challenging to conduct cancer programming in Nigeria due to a lack of good data on cancer registries, cases, particular stages, treatment options, survivors, mortalities, and other important indicators.
The genuine picture of cancer reality, according to Akeredolu, is still not known. He claimed that the majority of data were estimations that were actually understated.
In order to elicit political will and action, cancer advocates find it challenging to present policy makers with the full picture of Nigeria’s cancer reality, she said.
The fourth worldwide breast cancer symposium’s key objectives—accurate data collection, management, analysis, and reporting—were addressed by the necessity to upgrade the system, according to the speaker.
“As we commemorate BRECAN’s 25 years of actively promoting patient support, advocacy, research, and education to improve the outcome of breast cancer.
For cancer diagnosis and treatment technology designed to fit our demographic type, she said, it is crucial to have data that represents our community as black Africans.
In order to learn what works for the population and put names to the cancer success stories, the governor’s wife argued that cancer survivors must be involved
The success stories, according to Akeredolu, “are a qualitative testament to the general public that cancer may be vanquished if the correct activities are taken promptly, therefore improving cancer outcome in our region.”
reflects on the fact that the three-day conference, which included a number of other presentations on the causes, impacts, and solutions to the cancer burden, is scheduled to end on Saturday, October 15.
