What is cancer exactly and is it really possible to “beat the disease?” German oncologist Christof von Kalle is convinced that interdisciplinary collaboration by medical specialists will improve treatments for cancer patients. He hopes to simplify studies to speed up the development of new therapies for cancer.

Despite the discovery of a rare lymph node cancer linked to breast implants, experts say women need not be alarmed. They say the chances of developing “ALCL” are low.

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A dozen women, their bodies coated with clay, sway to beating drums as if in a trance, ankle bells jingling as they stamp their feet, in the eastern Ivorian town of Aniansue.

They are training to become certified “komians”, or priestesses, steeped in traditional lore, the properties of medicinal plants and the techniques of conflict resolution.

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