Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Richard Lee, Staff Writer
NewsTimes.com (Danbury, Connecticut, USA)
Before Stamford-based AmeriCares and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals arrived three years ago at Sihanouk Hospital Center of Hope in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, women suffering from breast cancer had little chance of survival.
Doctors at the hospital were unfamiliar with breast cancer treatment, and women often arrived at the hospital with advanced stages of the disease, too late for life-saving procedures.
"The hospital was seeing 20 patients a year for breast cancer," said Ella Gudwin, vice president of strategic program development at AmeriCares, noting that for the 12 months ending March 31, the number had increased to 123. "The program has exceeded most of its targets. This is the only successful breast cancer program for poor Cambodian patients. The average patient is earning $2 a day. Chemotherapy would be the equivalent of four years of income."
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