Cancer patients' grim wait for death

Time running out for thousands as Gauteng health department fights legal bid to compel it to provide potentially life-saving treatment

11 August 2024 - 00:00

Cancer sufferer Lydia Staats has attended two funerals in the past year — both of them for women who, like her, had been waiting for radiation treatment to prevent a recurrence of their breast cancer (https://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/2024-06-14-young-women-urged-to-join-battle-against-breast-cancer-and-learn-ways-to-prevent-it/)...

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