Heavy-drinking women top in cancer screening

Hundreds of Nakuru residents walk with banners and placards during the Nakuru Hospice cancer Awareness walk along Kenyatta Avenue in Nakuru town. [Kipsang Joseph/Standard]

Women in Kenya who drink heavily are more likely to screen for cervical cancer than light drinkers or abstainers, a Ministry of Health report has said.

Women with risky lifestyles such as binge drinking, excess sugar intake and too little physical activity, the ministry said, had high rates of screening.