 For key to improving cancer patients, survival rates has been discovered as a multidisciplinary treatment approach. Medical professionals express these views during a one-day cancer meeting in Ikegea Lagos. Plus, the correspondents love Ikuko Yedoko tells us more in this report. It is a Trinidad Trina Cancer Summit for members of the Nigerian Cancer Society. They are here to learn, unlearn and relearn the act of breaking bad news to cancer patients. The way we present the bad news, you know, may be what we want seeing the bad news on its own. And so the bad news is there, whatever has happened, this constant may never change, but how we present that bad news may be something that may haunt our patients for life. I've seen many occasions where patients broke down, sometimes they even want to pick up the doctors that I rejected, it's not my portion, whatever. I realize not just how important it is to learn and know how to break bad news properly, but I also realize the gap in knowledge, the lack of skills that exist amongst us as healthcare professionals in this regard. They applauded the idea behind the training, given the fact that often timed and known, breaking bad news is usually not as easy as it seems, especially in a medical setting. They harped on a multidisciplinary approach which could be of great benefit to patients. First and foremost, you need to have that multidisciplinary, where you carry everybody around. Right from the doctors, the suspicious, the doctors, the nurses, the physiotherapists, psychologists, everybody in the hospital has a role to play. Dr. Dennis Edger is a cancer survivor. Just like others, she was devastated when the news was broken to her. Immediately, she traveled out of the country. Her doctor told her she has just three months to live. It's now six years and still counting. She is surviving the disease. When I was first told, one of the first things I felt, you're going to shock immediately. You're going to shock because the first thing that goes into your head is I'm going to die. No matter what anybody says, I'm going to die. Dr. Edger's experience is one out of thousands of cases. She tells us how she's winning the battle. Everything about my cancer journey cannot be without God as the center of it. But I take everything that I've expected to do. I do my chemo, I take everything because God didn't give me license not to do those things. It was a full instruction. The theme is building strategic framework for strengthening cancer patients' support groups and breaking the bad news in the African region. Love you Cuku Uyiduku. Plus TV news.