Cervical Cancer is the deadliest in Mozambique

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Cervical Cancer is the deadliest in Mozambique

10:10 CAT | 12 Feb 2019

File photo: WHO/Nomin Lkhagvasuren

Cervical cancer is the one that kills the most in Mozambique, with around 3,000 deaths recorded in 2018, the Mozambican Ministry of Health revealed.

Cervical cancer is the one that kills the most in Mozambique, with around 3,000 deaths recorded in 2018, the Mozambican Ministry of Health revealed today.

“Cervical cancer is the most deadly, with an incidence of 4,300 registered cases and about 3,000 deaths, because women arrive [at health facilities] in an advanced state of the disease,” said Cesaltina Lorenzoni, head of the National Program of cancer in Mozambique.

Cesaltina Lorenzoni was speaking in Maputo at a press conference launching the national cancer screening and awareness campaign.

The risk factor for cervical cancer is infection by the Human Papilloma Virus, which is linked to unprotected sex, the specialist said.

One of the responses of the Government is the training of three oncology surgeons, which is already under way.

The data collected every five years indicate that in the year 2018 there were 25,000 cases of cancer detected, compared to 23,000 in 2013.

The general risk factors are alcohol consumption, sedentary lifestyle and smoking.

Skin cancer is the most frequent in Mozambique, with an incidence of 25 per cent, followed by cervical cancer and breast cancer.

As regards the younger age group, the most common cancers in children are those associated with blood.

Cesaltina Lorenzoni announced today that the Ministry of Health will carry out awareness campaigns in all 11 provinces of Mozambique, mass screening and launch a national plan to combat cancer (2019-2029), along with a project for radiotherapy interventions.

The campaign is an ongoing activity, but intensified in February because it is a month associated with the fight against cancer, he concluded.

Source: Lusa