Expert: Africans Must Become Educated on Cancer-Fighting Tools.

AScribe Health News Service, November, 2005

Byline: Purdue University

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Governments in Africa can aid in the fight against cancer by establishing cancer registries and becoming educated in the use of drugs to manage pain, according to a cancer researcher in Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine.

"Cancer is a death sentence in Africa because there is no technology to diagnose or treat it," said Sulma Mohammed, an assistant professor of cancer biology and director of Drug Discovery Shared Resource, a Cancer Center core laboratory. "The government has to take cancer seriously. We want them to accept responsibility and take control. Infectious diseases are getting all the attention while cancer is being ignored."

Sulma Mohammed...

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