Hard questions no one is asking on cancer

Having watched two dear ones succumb to cancer in the last 60 days, this public health challenge just got very personal. Cancer stalks us with the aggressiveness of HIV/AIDS in the 90s. We must move beyond understanding to making deliberate health and lifestyles choices to survive.

Like all life-threatening diseases, our understanding of cancer is obscured by many myths. Is cancer contagious? Will my smart-phone or my moods place me at risk of getting cancer? Is cancer a death sentence? No is the answer. Yet, 48,000 people are diagnosed and 33,000 die of cancer annually. The disease is now the third highest killer of Kenyans, especially women.