Cancer Fund

Cancer is one of Nigeria's deadliest and fastest-growing health challenges. In 2022 alone, about 127,700 people in Nigeria were diagnosed with cancer, and about 79,500 died from it. That means roughly six in ten people diagnosed that year died from the disease, one of the highest death rates relative to new cases anywhere in the world. The most common cancers are breast cancer (over 32,000 new cases a year), prostate cancer (about 18,000) and cervical cancer (about 13,700). Together they account for half of all new cases. Many of them can be treated, and some can be cured, especially when they're caught early.