The National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (NICRAT) is working towards establishing a preventive clinic for cancer in each of the six geopolitical zones of the country.
The Director General of the institute, Usman Aliyu, made the disclosure in Abuja during a one-day retreat for health journalists organised by the institute in collaboration with the International Society of Media in Public Health (ISMPH).
He rued the dearth of facilities where Nigerians could go specifically for cancer screening, adding that the select tertiary hospitals for the preventive clinics will have trained health workers as well as mammography machines, ultrasound machines among others.
Aliyu added that the agency was also working towards establishing a centralized national cancer registry in the country, adding that doing so would help improve data management for cancer.
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