The Director General of the National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (NICRAT), Prof. Usman Malami Aliyu, has called on the federal government to adequately fund the institute to enable it to carry out research on cancer.
He made the call yesterday during a media parley in Abuja.
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He said doing so would also change the cancer narrative in the country.
He said, “The institute needs money to embark on research because research is the answer to the cancer cases in the country. It is through research that we can identify the best preventive mechanisms and diagnosis. We are still evolving in the area of diagnosis, so it is through research that we can come up with newer modalities of diagnosing and treating cancer.”
Prof. Aliyu said cancer caused over 78, 000 deaths in Nigeria in 2020 alone, adding that the number is set to increase given that there are 120, 000 new cases of cancer every year.
