{"id":4100,"date":"2019-07-26T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4100"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:26","slug":"report-finds-throat-cancer-most-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/26\/report-finds-throat-cancer-most-deadly\/","title":{"rendered":"Report finds throat cancer most deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By SAMWEL\nOWINO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You are most likely to die from\noesophageal cancer than other types of cancer, a report presented before a\nparliamentary committee by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the data presented\nbefore the Health committee, out of 4,380 new oesophageal cancer cases reported\nannually, there are 4,351 deaths &#8211; meaning only 29 of those affected survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This further means that for every\n365 people diagnosed with oesophageal cancer in a month, only two survive, a\nshocking revelation that may now make it one of the deadliest killer type of\ncancer in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the data, breast and\ncervical cancers form the highest number of new cancer cases while oesophagus,\nprostate and colorectal cancers follow, respectively, on the new cancer cases\nin the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FATALITIES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Breast cancer has 5,985 new cases\nannually, followed by cervical at 5,250, oesophagus (4,380), prostate (2,864)\nand colorectal (2,316). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Report-finds-throat-cancer-most-deadly\/1056-5210838-14mpcw5z\/index.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SAMWEL OWINO You are most likely to die from oesophageal cancer than other types of cancer, a report presented before a parliamentary committee by the National Cancer Institute (NCI)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}