{UAH} What Uganda is teaching us about cancer
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The three-story, state-of-the-art research, training and outpatient facility – the first comprehensive cancer center jointly built by U.S. and African cancer institutions in sub-Saharan Africa – is the fruit of an alliance with the UCI begun in 2004 by Fred Hutch Global OncologyDirector Dr. Corey Casper.
But its roots go back farther than that – to an Irish surgeon whose work in Kampala in the 1950s put Uganda on the cancer research map and in the 1960s excited the interest and investment of the U.S. National Cancer Institute. And they go back to the Ugandan physicians and nurses who kept the UCI open through the dark decades of political upheaval and violence that followed that first flowering until a new alliance and – now a new building – restored hope for cancer care in East Africa.
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