00CANCER-mulago4-superJumbo Published October 7, 2017 at 2048 × 1365 in As Cancer Tears Through Africa, Drug Makers Draw Up a Battle Plan ← Previous Next → Patients in the solid tumor ward of the Uganda Cancer Institute. Oncologists are so scarce in most of Africa that they cannot specialize and must learn to treat every type of cancer. Credit Charlie Shoemaker for The New York Times