Doubts have continued to trail influencer, Blessing ‘’CEO” Okoro’s claim of having stage 4 cancer.
A Nigerian medical doctor, Dr Adefunke Arowolo, and Blessing were on Arise TV on Saturday, April 4, to discuss her cancer claim. While on the show, the medical doctor pointed out disparities in Blessing’s claim.
Blessing had claimed that she initially visited the hospital after she discovered a lump in her breast and when a test was ran, they told her it wasn’t cancerous. She said she went back months for another test and then it was discovered that the lump was cancerous and that it was on its fourth stage.
While Blessing recounted how a doctor in Enugu carried out medical tests on her to detect if she had cancer, Dr Arowolo countered all of her claims. She argued that no doctor would conduct a biopsy first on a cancer patient.
The doctor further stated that when cancer is suspected, an imaging is first carried out on the patient, an ultrasound scan if the patient is less than 40 and if above forty, a mammogram is carried out before a biopsy can then be done. She said no qualified doctor would allow a patient move around with a lump in their breast for six months as a test would be performed to determine if it is cancerous or not.
When asked what type of doctor she saw, Blessing responded ‘’an oncologist’. Dr Arowolo disagreed with her claim saying no hospital would send a cancer patient to see an oncologist unless a Biopsy result has been obtained.
Dr Arowolo also mentioned that she contacted the pathologist who signed the medical report Blessing paraded and that the pathologist told her that he has nothing to do with the test result. She mentioned that the pathologist who Blessing claimed signed the report is based in Asaba, Delta state and not in Enugu as indicated in the result being paraded.
Watch the interview below
