Program helps cancer patients

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Over the past five months, 154 cancer patients, 97 women and 57 men, in 5 hospitals, were treated for a variety of cancers, under the Special Program Against Cancer (Pescca). Of those nine patients died, as reported in Diario Libre. Leukemia, lymphoma, Willis tumors, breast cancer and cervical cancer were among the most commonly treated. Oncologist Raisa Nieves Paulino told the press that every year about 150 cancer cases are reported. The data was released during the review for the Special Program Against Cancer (PESCA). Since the program was begun, in November 2006, RD$5 million has been invested in treatments for the poor.

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