2021-02-04 05:05:24 GMT2021-02-04 13:05:24(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
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KAMPALA, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) Lawrence Magoola, 32, has spent the past year nursing his mother, a breast cancer patient who has been receiving radiation treatment at Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI).
Magoola s mother is one of 65,000 new cancer patients registered with UCI last year, as the East African country grapples with an increasing number of cancer cases.
UCI, which has been establishing cancer treatment centers across the country to fight the disease, has set up centers at the northern Gulu Regional Referral Hospital and the western Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, with more due to be established in the eastern and northwestern parts of the country.