Posted to the web 13 October 2008 Efforts to tame cancer in the country yesterday in Abuja received a boost with a million dollar donation from the US-based Allied Energy Corporation. The donation would support the initiative of the US-based NGO, Africa Cancer Care Inc (ACCCI) to establish cancer screening and treatment centre in Abuja and in each of the six geo-political zones. Announcing the donation at a National Cancer Walk to raise awareness on the scourge, ACCI founder, Dr Eucharia Iwuanyawu, said the donation would go a long way to bring succour to thousands of cancer sufferers in Nigeria. Iwuanyawu said cancer was killing more than 500,000 women globally per annum while one out of every 20 Nigerian women would suffer from breast cancer in their...
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