Nigeria: 80% of women with cervical cancer die because they come in late — Prof Adewole

Former Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole and Chairman of the National Task Force on cervical cancer, in this interview with SADE OGUNTOLA, speak on steps to curtail women dying from cervical cancer, a preventable cancer caused by a virus in Nigeria.

In 2022, 660,000 women were diagnosed and about 350,000 women died. What are the current figures and how would you assess Nigeria’s strategy in eliminating this?

The current figures actually will be about a year…