Pilot cancer testing programmes offer hope

Sarah Mugo, a laboratory technologist, operates a flow cytometry machine at Aga Khan Hospital.

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In East Africa, cancers that should be curable are still claiming countless lives, not because treatments do not exist, but because diagnosis often comes too late.

Flow cytometry, a newly introduced technology that uses lasers to analyse blood and bone marrow samples, is transforming how cancers are diagnosed.