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My calling is to nip cancer in the bud

Prof Mansoor Saleh, Oncologist at Aga Khan University Hospital, during a past interview with 'The Standard'. [David Njaaga, Standard]

Prof Mansoor Saleh lived with his grandparents in Zanzibar, until the Sultan was overthrown by African revolutionaries in 1964. 

As happens in war, the collateral damage of the Zanzibar revolution were the weak in society. A young Mansoor was among the many children captured by revolting soldiers and put in a prison camp away from his grandparents and the life he was accustomed to.

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