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

The current figures actually will be about a year behind whatever is announced, and so for Nigeria, we’re looking at about 12,000 women with cervical cancer diagnosed every year, and about 8,000 of them dying from the disease. Globally, we say every two minutes, a woman dies from cervical cancer, but in Nigeria, every hour, a woman dies from cervical cancer