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“Once you go through something as traumatic as a cancer diagnosis, you automatically become protective of the next person,” said Karen Nakawala, a Zambian broadcaster and cervical cancer survivor.<\/p>\n
Nakawala knows that trauma firsthand.\u00a0In 2019, her life changed when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer.<\/p>\n
The diagnosis forced Nakawala to confront the disease she would later dedicate much of her life to talking about publicly. After treatment, she converted her experience into advocacy, determined…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> “Once you go through something as traumatic as a cancer diagnosis, you automatically become protective of the next person,” said Karen Nakawala, a Zambian broadcaster and cervical cancer survivor. Nakawala knows that trauma firsthand.\u00a0In 2019, her life changed when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. The diagnosis forced Nakawala to confront the disease she would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690243:1d3c1918358a5c1d50c5319b1fc63e61:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,6808,4345,8037,5731,257,13389,254,6040,7232,4709,881,8982],"class_list":["post-242277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cancer","tag-fight","tag-fix","tag-health","tag-news","tag-protective","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survivors","tag-system","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambias"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690243:1d3c1918358a5c1d50c5319b1fc63e61:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242277","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=242277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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