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Day’s rallying call offers hope against cancer

The nobility of the World Cancer Day, marked nationally and globally yesterday, shall have been lost if the campaign does not generate new understanding and remedial actions against the disease.

Unlike malaria, HIV-related complications, and tuberculosis, cancer has been described as the silent killer. It is the ultimate cause of deaths whose toll surpasses that of malaria, TB and HIV-related cases combined.

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