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Revealed : Professor Wole Soyinka Was Diagnosed Of Cancer Last December by luigiajah(m): 6:43am On Nov 26, 2014
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Oluwole Soyinka, today,
opened up on his health status, saying he
was
diagnosed of cancer last December.
But an expert and Founder of African Cancer
Centre, Lagos, Prof. Olu Williams, quickly
assured Soyinka that he would “not die of
cancer.”
Williams, who revealed that Soyinka had the
disease because of his old age, said the
playwright will only “die with the ailment.”
Soyinka, who revealed his cancer status at a
press conference at the June 12 Cultural
Centre, Abeokuta, Ogun State, said he had
decided to open up so as to create awareness
about cancer disease and to help people take
measures to prevent it or seek prompt
medical
attention for cure.
The Nobel Laureate said he survived the
silent
killer disease because of early detection,
treatment and proper dieting, adding that it
has also dawned on him that the family has
a
history of cancer ailment.
He noted that his initial reaction when it
dawned on that he has cancer was to see it
as
one of those challenges and nuisance that
should be dealt with, adding that a time he
considered it “an unwanted squatter in his
body and had to get rid of it whether it is a
slow growing one or malignant.”
Although, “Kongi”, who showed a crest to
attest to his surviving the disease, did not
reveal to reporters the nature of the cancer
he
was treated for, his son, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka,
who is also the Commissioner for Health in
Ogun State, later told The Nation his father
was treated for “prostate cancer.”

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Re: Revealed : Professor Wole Soyinka Was Diagnosed Of Cancer Last December by toxiflam: 6:45am On Nov 26, 2014
early detection has always been the key to ailment survival
Re: Revealed : Professor Wole Soyinka Was Diagnosed Of Cancer Last December by speakthetruth: 7:08am On Nov 26, 2014
Yeah the earlier the safer. It is well wt him.

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