World Cancer Day

We don't like think about it and many of us are scared just to hear the word cancer.

It's a disease that kills over eight million people around the world every year, but many types of cancer are in fact preventable - and that's the theme of this year's World Cancer Day.

In a continent where some people still think cancer could be witchcraft, the disease is often discovered too late, when doctors can hardly treat it.

Muliro Telewa has spoken to a nurse, Delilah Muasya, who underwent surgery to have both her breasts removed after contracting cancer.