The Leah Charity Foundation, an Ilorin, Kwara State-based non-governmental organization, has intensified its efforts at reducing the incidence of breast and cervical cancers in women through a sensitisation visit to local government areas in the state.
This is in addition to the establishment of the Leah Cancer Centre and three other screening centres in and around the Ilorin Metropolis.
Currently, the Founder of LEAH Charity Foundation and wife of the Kwara State Governor, Omolewa Ahmed, has visited 10 out of the 16 local government areas in the state to speak to the women on the need for early screening as a way of increasing the chances of survival.
Whilst praying that no one would come down with the disease, Ahmed noted that cancer is not necessarily a death sentence when it is discovered early and that this was the reason people must make efforts to embark on breast and cervical screening at least once every year.
She explained that the Leah Cancer Centre was established to provide opportunities for women to check themselves, get information on how to examine themselves and provide counselling and treatment options for women who need these interventions.
Ahmed stated that in the past couple of months, close to 4,000 women have been screened at the centres.
One hundred and seventy-two of them were discovered to have breast lumps, 309 had abnormal discharge, five had cases of “full blown breast cancer”, while seven of the screened women had cases of confirmed cervical cancer.
She said further that 10 women are currently undergoing Cryotherapy, just as 50 women have been referred to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin for the removal of lumps in their breasts.
Other referral centres bankrolled by the foundation for cancer related cases are Adewole Cottage Hospital and Children Specialist Hospital, Centre, Igboro, both in Ilorin.
Appealing to women to take advantage of the ultra-modern equipment at the GRA, Ilorin based cancer centre for screening of both breast and cervix at a very highly subsidized rate of N200, which was fixed to take care of the disposables used for the screening, Ahmed said efforts were on to improve the capacity of the centre to treat diagnosed cases.
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