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Hope and optimism as world marks cancer day

Project manager of cancer linear accelerator equipment for cancer therapy Santosh Tawdekar shows the machine at Kenyatta National Hospital during a World cancer day on 4/2/16. [photo/BEVERLYNE MUSILI]

Finally, there is optimism across the world that with good institutional planning and responsible individual lifestyle, cancer can be managed.

Today, the World Cancer Day is marked on the background of two major reports showing a decline in cancer cases as well as deaths from the disease.

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