Kindness of Strangers Brings Joy to Young Girl with Cancer

We are often so caught up in our own lives that we just completely ignore everyone else that we may pass by in the street; they are strangers after all, so why should we take note of them? The following story though, shows just how important something as small as a smile and a wave […]

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Low Cost Cancer Treatment Centre Targets Low Income Groups

As an oncologist at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) Catherine Nyongesa knows the suffering that cancer patients go through waiting for between six months to a year for treatment. Despite being the national referral hospital, KNH has only two radiotherapy machines — the only ones in the entire public health sector. Only a few can afford […]

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US Scientists Program Cancer Cells Back to Normal

Scientists have turned cancerous cells back to normal by switching back on the process which stops normal cells from replicating too quickly Cancer cells have been programmed back to normal by scientists in a breakthrough which could lead to new treatments and even reverse tumour growth. For the first time aggressive breast, lung and bladder […]

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Late Night Thoughts of A Mother Whose Child Has Cancer (13)

Ethan got a star for knowing his numbers Herewith the latest article as penned by Ethan’s Mom, Gila Jacobs, on her feelings as an Onco Mom dealing with the daily trials and tribulations of cancer. As originally explained, this article is posted as is to maintain integrity and passion. September 2015 It’s 4am and I […]

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Musings of an Onco Mom: This Grief Thing

Earlier today I was going through Facebook, and a link to the post below came up in my feed. Musings of an Onco Mom is a blog that Lisl, mother to Emma, has been posting to since July 2014, when Emma was diagnosed with Leukaemia. If anyone wants to try to understand what a family […]

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