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Cancer stigma is a great problem in South Africa, it touches all groups, ages and genders and impacts cancer patients daily.

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PLWC Director talks at World Lymphoma Awareness Day

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The 15th of September marks World Lymphoma Awareness Day (WLAD). It is being marked in a global environment in which lymphoma (a cancer of the blood) is no longer being considered a rare disease, its incidence having doubled in the past 55 years. WLAD was initiated in 2004 to raise public awareness of both Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in terms of symptom recognition, early diagnosis and treatment. The causes are unknown but the most common early symptom of non-Hodgkin lymphoma is painless swelling of the lymph nodes, usually in the neck, armpit, groin or abdomen. Read more

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