Cancer can affect an entire family, including when children lose their mother to it. — AFP
Around one million children worldwide lose their mother to cancer every year, often leaving orphans caught up in a “vicious cycle of disadvantage”, researchers say.
The first-ever estimate for the number of children left motherless from cancer was announced at the World Cancer Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, on Oct 19 (2022).
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