Nigeria: Study finds one in six cancer medicines in sub-Saharan Africa unsafe

In Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries, the alarming statistic is that 1 in 6 cancer medications is found to be defective, a study has reported.

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame published in The Lancet Global Health said that from large hospitals to small pharmacies, at least 10% of medicines in sub-Saharan Africa are substandard or falsified.

Patients who receive insufficient dosages of these ingredients could see their tumours keep growing, and possibly even…