Cancer is one of the chronic non-communicable diseases whose diagnosis, treatment, and management, including palliative care, are costly.
Particularly, lung cancer has also been found to be one of the cancers with high mortality rates as compared to other types of cancer.
According to Dr.
Lawrence Atundo Murunga, who works with the multinational lung cancer control programme based at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, MTRH, out of 154 patients diagnosed with lung cancer at the facility within the last one year, 28 of them have succumbed to the disease.
