Mother and son in the children's ward at Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala.
Credit Joanne Silberner
Many parents can’t bring their children in for repeated chemotherapy treatments – they may live 10 or 12 hours away by bus. The average one-year survival rate is 10 percent.
Credit Joanne Silberner
The Uganda Cancer Institute doesn’t have high-tech equipment like MRI machines or gamma knives, but intravenous chemotherapy is possible – and in many cases, curative.
Credit Joanne Silberner
This child has Burkitt's lymphoma, a cancer that is common in Uganda. The cancer makes the jaws and bellies swell grotesquely.
Credit Joanne Silberner
The cancer institute is the only medical facility in Uganda dedicated to treating cancer patients. More than 20,000 patients a year are seen here.
Forty-two-year-old Corey Casper is tall, thin, and a bit hollow-eyed from all his responsibilities. He’s a cancer doctor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He performs research and trains young doctors in Seattle and Uganda. And in his own quiet way, he wants to make a difference in the world.