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Only 13,000 of the people diagnosed with cancer each year in Tanzania report to hospital for treatement. This, according to the Health, Community Developement, Gender, Elderly and Children Minister Ummy Mwalimu is about 26% of all the annual cancer cases estimated to be diagnosed in the country. ...
When after medical school, he chose oncology as his field of specialization, many of his colleagues called Sokha Eav crazy. ‘Why pick a discipline in which there is no future in this country,’ he recalls his friends asking. Fast forward twenty years and Eav, who is the head of the Onco-Hemato...
Skin cancer can occur anywhere on the body, but it is most common in skin that is often exposed to sunlight, such as the face, neck, hands, and arms. There are different types of cancer that start in the skin. Melanoma is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the skin ce...