A total of 1,957 new cancer patients were received and attended to at the Uganda Cancer Institute last year, according to the Ministerial Policy statement for the Financial Year 2017/2018 prepared by the Health minister, Dr Jane Aceng.
The new cancer cases were registered out of 2,684 individuals who tuned up for cancer screening in the just ending Financial Year 2016/2017.
Contained among key achievements registered at UCI, the ministerial budget preparatory document indicates that about 308 minor surgical operations were carried out, 80 gynae operations, about 59 head and neck surgical operations and 471 bone marrow procedures were also performed at UCI.