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The Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) has said it detects at least 600 cases of cancer among children each year.
Dr Joyce Balagadde Kambugu, who heads the clinical management of childhood cancer at the Institute, however, said 75 per cent of children with cancer in the country are either misdiagnosed or undiagnosed.
“A total of 750 children are diagnosed with cancer each year, 600 of those cases are detected at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) and around 150 cases are detected at Mbarara Hospital [cancer centre] each year,” Dr Balagadde said.
She added: “This is about 25 per cent of cases who present at specialised cancer treatment centres. According to the GLOBOCAN report of 2018, it is estimated that every year in Uganda, there are around 3,000 cases of cancer among children under the age of 18.”
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.