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Ogun sensitises students on breast, cervical cancers

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The Chairman of Governing Council of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Mr. Alaba Lawson, has urged female students of the institution to know their status about breast and cervical cancers respectively.Breast and Cervical CancerShe said creating awareness for the two deadly cancers is one of the effort on the campaign to check the young girls a and mothers, saying that the institution has also gotten the equipment that can detect cancer in the body.

She said during the cancer awareness campaign which was organized and by the wife of the Ogun State Governor, Olufunso Amosun and the Medical Women Association of Nigeria ( MWAN). The campaign was led by Mrs Amosun and Iyalode Alaba Lawson.

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Mrs. Amosun said to the participants that the state government will always pick medical bills of wall the cancer patients in the state.

She was very perturbed about the case of breast and cervical cancer which appear to be increasing at an alarming rate.

Expert said the understanding of how cancer spreads is highly important to humankind because early detection is the only prevention of cancer and also sharing the knowledge about the disease

Mrs. Amosun said each time she went to awareness walks and talks and she come across women that has been diagnosed of cancer, she’s always heartbroken and helpless about the situation and not knowing how she can be of help to them, that’s why this year, she has taken the campaign a step further by making the Governor agree to pay the medical bills of women who underwent surgery cancer.

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