Late diagnosis hinders fight against cancer

October 5, 2011 Country Uganda Filed under Health 0 Comments

For every 10 patients diagnosed with cancer only two are cured while the remaining eight die of the disease due to inadequate access to cancer treatment, experts have said. At any given time, there at least 200 new infections for every 100,000 people, a rate that is indisputably increasing the disease burden in the population in addition to those already battling with the disease. go

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