NGO Identifies Prostrate Cancer As Major Challenge For Male Cancer The Barrister Tokunbo Richard Omage’s Foundation (BATRO)

a Non- Governmental Organisation (NGO), on Friday said that prostrate cancer had become a major plague for men. The Chairperson of the NGO, Mrs Praise-EI Omage, told Journalists, that to help address the grim situation, BATRO had so far screened 30 men for the Prostrate Specific Antigen (PSA) in Lagos in 2021. She said that the programme was in partnership with the laboratory of the Ancilla Catholic Hospital and Fortress Hospital. “The free test is carried out for men in order to determine how healthy their prostrate is or whether there’s any evidence of cancer present. “We prepared for 50 men, but 30 men were present at the outreach. “Out of the men screened, six of them have highly elevated range of PSA; that is a whole 23 per cent. “A normal range is between two to less than four. Some of them had as high as