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Cancer survival rate in Qatar one of the highest, data show
01 May 2021 - 8:30
The Peninsula
Doha: The Qatar National Cancer Registry of the National Cancer Program at the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has released recent data on cancer incidence rates in Qatar.
A total of 1,960 new cancer cases were diagnosed during 2018. Cases were distributed by 20% among Qataris, 80% among residents, 46% among females and 54% among males.
The most common cancer among all nationalities was breast cancer, accounting for 16.58% of all cancer cases, followed by colorectal cancer at 9.44%.
Thyroid cancer was the third most common cancer, at 6.33% of all cancer cases.
Among females of all nationalities, breast cancer was the most common, accounting for 39.15% of all female cancer cases, followed by thyroid cancer. While in males, colorectal cancer was the most common, accounting for 10.93% of all male cancer cases, followed by prostate cancer, at 9.52%.
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Medical practitioners who spoke to
Daily Trust revealed that there are no more than three functional radiotherapy centres for cancer treatment in Nigeria.
The Chief Medical Director of the National Hospital, Abuja, Dr Jafaru Momoh, said aside from the hospital he heads, which has two linac radiotherapy machines, only the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), which is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) has two of the machines.
Speaking about these challenges, an Oncology Consultant at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), Dr Muhammad Inuwa Mustapha, identified lack of radiotherapy machine as a monumental concern that requires urgent attention from both the federal and state government.