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Cancer Association of Namibia chief executive Rolf Hansen says Namibia is on the brink of a cancer crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n He told Desert Radio yesterday that the number of new cases is projected to reach 4 000 annually.<\/p>\n Hansen said this stark revelation comes as the country observes Cancer Awareness Week, an annual event aimed at increasing awareness and education on cancer-related issues.<\/p>\n “I just checked the data yesterday after the workshops that we had – we’re now heading to 4 000 new cases of cancer every…<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Cancer Association of Namibia chief executive Rolf Hansen says Namibia is on the brink of a cancer crisis. He told Desert Radio yesterday that the number of new cases is projected to reach 4 000 annually. Hansen said this stark revelation comes as the country observes Cancer Awareness Week, an annual event aimed at increasing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,17933,6808,10498,3723,8032,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-178418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-annually","tag-cancer","tag-cases","tag-crisis","tag-hit","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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