Why doctors are still failing to diagnosing patients with cancer

Florence Ojode 71, who has been cancer free for 11 years after having three incidents with the disease. In Kenya, there are at least 27,000 cancer deaths recorded every year. [David Njaaga, Standard]

A gut instinct is what made Florence Ojode travel to Israel for cancer treatment in November 2012.

After two previous breast cancer diagnosis, and well aware of the disease’s ability to spread to other body parts, she was skeptical of the diagnosis given following a visit to the hospital after feeling unwell.