A consultant radiation oncologist and lecturer at the Department of Radiotherapy, University of Benin (Uniben), Dr. Oludare Adeyemi, has advised women to go for regular screening for breast cancer, adding that early detection is remedy to the ailment.
The medical practitioner said a new remedy for the treatment of cancer does not require mastectomy (surgical operation), but Micro-seeds treatment which include the use of radioactive seeds.
According to him, “Microseeds treatment takes a day unlike the convention radiotherapy that takes four weeks to be completed”.
Adeyemi who spoke with journalists in Benin City, Edo State capital on Wednesday said breast cancer is “a cancer that forms in the cells of breast”.
He identified the factors that cause breast cancer to include main hormonal factors, age, environmental and lifestyle factors.
Adeyemi stated, “Microseeds treatment was first performed in Canada about two years ago, but is now been practiced in few places in USA.
“This Microseeds treatment is the first in the whole of Africa. It has come to Africa through Nigeria.”
