Centre registers 15 colorectal cancer monthly, as WOCACA donates stoma bags to alleviate resource deficit

It is estimated that 4% of the world's population will have colorectal cancer at some point in their lives.And while most of the diagnoses are in adults aged 50 and over, there is a progressive increase in cases in increasingly young adults. Worldwide, during 2022, more than 1.9 million cases of colon cancer were diagnosed, being the third most frequent type of cancer and the second type of cancer that causes the highest mortality, with an avera…

Centre registers 15 colorectal cancer monthly, as WOCACA donates stoma bags to alleviate resource deficit

A senior medical officer at the National Cancer Centre (NCC) in Lilongwe, Dr. Akuzike Mtaula, has disclosed that the facility is registering at least 15 new cases of colorectal cancer (CRC) per month. But Mtaula indicated that these figures could have more than tripled if screening and diagnostic services were to be intensified, especially in […] The post Centre registers 15 colorectal cancer monthly, as WOCACA donates stoma bags to alleviate re…

An upward trend is the complex phenomenon that causes colorectal cancer in the world and is particularly alarming at the national and local levels, where it has become the second most common oncological pathology in men and women. According to statistics from the Global Observatory of Globocan Cancer, in Chile there were 13 new cases every 100,000 inhabitants per year registered to 1990 to 22 by 2017, and each year there are more, currently regi…