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The World Health Organisation says Cancer is becoming a major killer in Africa, accounting for nearly half a million deaths a year - a death rate set to double by 2030. But does the disease get the public health priority it deserves? Fred Okuku, a Ugandan Oncologist from the Cancer Institute at Mulago Hospital, Kampala, tells the 麻豆社's Kim Chakanetsa about the types of cases he sees.

(Picture: A breast cancer survivor reads pamphlets at a Nairobi Cancer care centre. Credit: Getty Images)