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