Uganda Cancer Institute

Cancer’s New Battleground: In Uganda, Jackson Orem fighting to establish cancer care

Health & Medicine

Cancer’s viewed by many as a disease of the developed world. Alternately, it’s viewed as too hard or too expensive to prevent or treat. But often, those views simply aren’t true. In Uganda, Dr. Jackson Orem, the country’s first, and for a time only, cancer doctor is showing the way.

Dr. Jackson Orem

Part I: Cancer’s Lonely Soldier

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