Research Article
Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers to Treat Cancer-Like Symptoms in Eleven Districts, Ethiopia
Table 2
Symptoms that are used by traditional healers to diagnose cancer.
| Cancer types | Reported symptoms | Number of traditional healers |
| Skin | Lumpy growth | 32 | Spreading pea-sized growth | 1 | Ulcerative growth and oozing blood | 1 |
| Breast | Lumpy growth | 17 | Lumpy growth on one breast and progressive weight loss | 1 | Ulcerative wounds on breast | 5 | Ulcerative wounds on breast and swelling on armpit and neck | 1 | The patient was receiving anticancer treatment for breast cancer in hospital | 12 |
| Cervical | Foul-smelling bloody vaginal discharge, pain during sexual intercourse, and weight loss | 1 |
| Colon | Chronic rectal bleeding and weight loss | 1 |
| Lung | Coughing up blood | 1 |
| Throat | Coughing and swelling on the neck | 1 |
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