Pope Leo has lung adenocarcinoma. He is 71, physically active, no reported smoking history.
Ask anyone to picture a lung cancer patient and they’ll describe a smoker. Lung cancer in never-smokers would rank among the deadliest cancers in the world on its own. Adenocarcinoma is the subtype that shows up in fit, asymptomatic people.
And the stereotype costs lives. Lung cancer still kills more people than breast, prostate and colorectal combined, yet gets a fraction of the funding per death. Patients get asked “did you smoke?” before “how are you?", nobody asks that of pancreatic cancer.
That stigma delays diagnosis. If you don’t fit the picture, nobody thinks of it first. Just like in young people where you always get pushed back with "you're too young for cancer".
You don't have to be old to have cancer, and you don't have to smoke to get lung cancer.
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Rare Audio of Young Igbo Men Talking More Than 100 Years Ago (with English
Translation)
Listen to 1 of the oldest recorded Igbo conversations ever preserved. The recording was made in 1911 during the anthropological surveys conducted by Northcote W. Thomas for British government.
Wait, this is insanely mind-blowing.🤯
So you're telling me the doctor operated on a patient lying on a hospital bed in Abuja while he's in Osun State?😲 How is that even possible? We are already living in the future, so many passed away before getting to witness this.🙌🏾👏🏾
It is a shame that truth has become so politicised in Nigeria. Today, if you speak the truth about the suffering of ordinary Nigerians, you are quickly labelled partisan. That should concern every Nigerian.
Cardinal Onaiyekan was not speaking for Catholics alone. He was speaking for millions of Nigerians who bear the weight of the present realities. The Church has always stood with the poor, the vulnerable and those whose voices are ignored. That is her mission.
Mr. Bwala, your statement is very divisive and by reducing a moral intervention by the Catholic Bishops on behalf of millions of suffering Nigerians to mere politics, you have lost all sense of the sacred. Not every voice that challenges those in power is a political voice.
The Church does not exist to defend any government or opposition. She exists to proclaim the Gospel, defend human dignity, and remind those in authority that power is a trust to be exercised for the good of the people. When we dismiss every uncomfortable truth as politics, we lose not only our moral compass but also our sense of what is sacred.
As Catholics Dey do their own, Winners chapel dey do their own.
Only one pastor never talk.
Except when the matter na about Ronaldo vs Messi. E go carry front.
Dentists really figured it out. Decent working hours, fewer night calls and still earning well. Meanwhile other doctors are rotating through wards like it’s a relay race with no finish line.