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Available data on cancer is insufficient for the disease to be declared a national disaster, Health Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki has said.
The CS warned against people reacting too emotionally to the ravaging disease that has recently claimed the lives of high profile individuals.
According to government data, cancer is the third leading cause of deaths in Kenya with 32,987 people succumbing to it annually.
Ms Kariuki said solid scientific evidence needed to be compiled first before President Uhuru Kenyatta can be advised to declare the disease a national disaster.
“For us to be able to reach a point of declaring cancer a national disaster, there has to be sufficient data built over time that is scientific, solid and sound enough to back our declaration," said Kariuki.
The five most common cancers include breast, cervical, oesophageal, prostate and colorectal.
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