African Cancer Centre to raise N16bn for specialist facility

Nigeria’s late-stage cancer crisis could worsen by 2030

The worldwide burden of the disease doubled between 1975 and 2000, and in 2010, cancer became the number one killer disease of mankind.

The African Cancer Centre (ACC) has appointed two financial advisers from PAC Capital Limited and Greenwich Merchant Bank to raise N16.6 billion or $40 million for a 350-bed cancer centre to be built along the Ibeju-Lekki corridor of Lagos. The development comes as part of the centre’s commitme

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