in 2013 I was asked to cover breast
cancer in Uganda breast cancer has less
than a handful of oncologists in the
whole country a woman who has breast
cancer thinks of it as a death sentence
most of the resources in Uganda went to
hiv/aids so cancer is something that is
sort of just seen as a curse this is
Mary she had been living with tumors for
several years but didn’t want to tell
anyone she was ashamed there was a team
of American doctors from Seattle who
went to try and bring ultrasound
technology to detect tumors early when
she took off her shirt this is what we
saw and they did a biopsy on Mary and it
turned out the cancer was very localized
and she was able to get a mastectomy and
survived this is jolly and her husband
she had gotten a mastectomy a year
before and did not follow up and I spent
five days with her until she died and
this is her daughter seeing her mother
in the casket she didn’t even know her
her mother had passed away she just got
a calm was pulled out of boarding school
and when she came into the truck they
just opened the lid and there was her
mother and I was crying so hard when I
took this picture it’s completely out of
focus and that’s Jolly’s bed about a
half an hour after she died they’re
cleaning it and getting ready for
another woman and this is there was one
radiation machine that serves four
countries it works 24 hours a day this
is Jesse she was trying to get
chemotherapy she had two sons and was
determined to stay alive but she didn’t
have ten dollars to take the bus back
home to see her children in between
chemo treatments so she slept outside of
the hospital for two months she has to
change her own bandages at every day
because there was no one available to do
that this is her finally getting chemo
and she’s leaving the hospital to go see
her children this is her on the bus ride
bath and her sister washing her when she
gets home and this is her with her
children and jesse died about six months
after that story
cancer in Uganda breast cancer has less
than a handful of oncologists in the
whole country a woman who has breast
cancer thinks of it as a death sentence
most of the resources in Uganda went to
hiv/aids so cancer is something that is
sort of just seen as a curse this is
Mary she had been living with tumors for
several years but didn’t want to tell
anyone she was ashamed there was a team
of American doctors from Seattle who
went to try and bring ultrasound
technology to detect tumors early when
she took off her shirt this is what we
saw and they did a biopsy on Mary and it
turned out the cancer was very localized
and she was able to get a mastectomy and
survived this is jolly and her husband
she had gotten a mastectomy a year
before and did not follow up and I spent
five days with her until she died and
this is her daughter seeing her mother
in the casket she didn’t even know her
her mother had passed away she just got
a calm was pulled out of boarding school
and when she came into the truck they
just opened the lid and there was her
mother and I was crying so hard when I
took this picture it’s completely out of
focus and that’s Jolly’s bed about a
half an hour after she died they’re
cleaning it and getting ready for
another woman and this is there was one
radiation machine that serves four
countries it works 24 hours a day this
is Jesse she was trying to get
chemotherapy she had two sons and was
determined to stay alive but she didn’t
have ten dollars to take the bus back
home to see her children in between
chemo treatments so she slept outside of
the hospital for two months she has to
change her own bandages at every day
because there was no one available to do
that this is her finally getting chemo
and she’s leaving the hospital to go see
her children this is her on the bus ride
bath and her sister washing her when she
gets home and this is her with her
children and jesse died about six months
after that story
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