Marissa Mika, "Africanizing Oncology: Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda" (Ohio UP, 2021)
New Books in African Studies
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The Lymphoma Treatment Centre
The lymphona treatment center, or l t c, in its early days. And one important aspect of care there was that not only the sick child, but the entire family was cared for in one way or another by the hospital. How was this kind of social support critical for the patient's survival? Sure that's a great on. And so the lymphoma treatment centre, which started in 19 67, was originally designed to just be aberkes lymphoma clinical trials facility. But what american oncologists realized within six months of opening up this facility that was supposed to be nia trials facility, is that the families that they were working with,. often had five to six to eight
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