A cancer screening session.[Photo/BusinessDaily]
More women than men are battling cancer in Kenya.
This is according to data from Nairobi’s Texas Cancer Centre (TCC).
The data shows that up to 63 per cent of patients treated at the facility from 2014 to 2016 are female.
Additionally, most female patients were treated for breast and cervical cancer.
“Breast and cervical cancer, according to our numbers, are the most prominent cancers in Kenya,” says Dr Catherine Nyongesa, the lead oncologist and chief executive at TCC.
January is the world’s cervical cancer month and the facility says it has organised cervical cancer walk tomorrow to raise awareness on the disease. The walk has been twinned with free screening thereafter.
The walk will be flagged off from the hospital’s main facility off Mbagathi Road.