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Nigeria still far behind in cancer treatment – NCS
The Nigerian Cancer Society (NCS) has said that the country was still behind in providing the needed equipment and facilities for treatment of cancer patients. Dr Adamu Alhassan Umar, the President of NCS, said this during a courtesy visit to the ultramodern Asi Ukpo Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Calabar on Monday. Adamu and his team of cancer experts, who commended…
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Health
Go for regular medical check-ups, NAN MD urges Nigerians
Malam Ali Muhammad Ali, the Managing Director (MD) of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), has encouraged Nigerians to develop the habit of visiting their doctors on a regular basis to guarantee prompt treatment for medical conditions. Ali made the call on Saturday in Kaduna during the unveiling of a foundation in honor of the late Hassana Yakubu, a NAN…
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News
CNN anchor, Christiane Amanpour diagnosed with cancer
CNN’s chief international anchor, Christiane Amanpour has revealed that she has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Amanpour, who broke the news on Monday, told viewers that the illness was the reason she recently took a break from work. She added that she’s confident about the outcome, as she begins her chemotherapy journey to deal with the cancer even though doctors…
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Features
Truly blessed: Tribute to Chadwick Boseman
I first saw Chadwick Boseman in the movie Get on Up in 2015, a year after it was made and a year before he was diagnosed of cancer. I had just finished watching Tristan & Isolde and, in the absence of something better – or so I thought – I settled for Get on Up. That was how I ‘met’ Boseman. I was intrigued by…
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NEWS
Tributes pour in for Travolta’s wife, Preston
Actor Kelly Preston died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, her family announced. She was 57. “It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly has lost her two-year battle with breast cancer,” Preston’s husband, actor John Travolta, wrote on Instagram. “She fought a courageous fight with the love and support of…
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News
Muhammadu Buhari Has Testicular Cancer – Pamela Mojekwu *as Buhari fails to attend APC rally in London
US-based Nigerian journalist and sickle cell advocate, Pamela Mojekwu has stated that contrary to claims that All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) is fine, he “obviously has testicular cancer”. In a statement she made yesterday afternoon (Nigerian Time) on her Facebook wall, Mojekwu, CEO of Sickle Cell United Chicago, Illinois, USA, said: “Buhari obviously has testicular…
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Industrialist Onwuka Kalu of Onwuka HiTek fame is dead
Chief Onwuka Kalu, the famed Okpuzu of Abiriba, is no dead. He lost his four-year battle against cancer Monday night in a London hospital, his family has announced. Onwuka Kalu, one of the best known Nigerians of the 1970s and 1980s, achieved fame as a teenage millionaire trader who went into manufacturing of Rocket Nails and motor parts through Onwuka…
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Middle East
Awareness Program at Al Ain Residency for World Cancer Day
The Al Ain General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs organized an educational awareness program for World Cancer Day. The two-day program was organized in collaboration with Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) and the Positive Cancer Foundation. Members and customers of the Directorate received free medical check-ups and education awareness pamphlets. Dr. Faiza Al Ameri, from the Positive Cancer…
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