Last Saturday in Yaounde, what was supposed to be a crowd-pulling event went on almost unnoticed because of little media attention.
Under the auspices of the NGO, Solidarité Chimeothérapie, Sochimio, thousands of Yaoundeans turned out at the main avenues of the city to draw attention to the havocs of cancer. Among the various marchers were cancer patients and, above all, those who wanted to show that although cancer continues to be a killer disease, many people can live with the disease and that treatment forms have been found to the extent that smiles can come back to the faces of cancer patients.
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