Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | As many as 30,000 Ugandans every year develop cancerous cells but are never diagnosed or seek treatment because they do not know, according to the Uganda Cancer Institute. Data from the cancer registry shows that in 2020, a total of 34,008 people were diagnosed with cancer …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Cancer Institute has received funding worth 7.3 billion Shillings to equip its laboratory to become the reference entity for both research and diagnosis of tumours across East Africa. The Institute’s Executive Director Dr Jackson Orem says they are revamping the lab using money …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) has had 298 of its patients test positive for Covid-19. These were identified through an initiative that requires everyone seeking cancer treatment to first undertake a Covid-19 PCR test. Dr Nixon Niyonzima who heads laboratory services at the Institute told …
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