Literary Icon, Prof Wole Soyinka,
revealed today at a press conference in Abeokuta Ogun state, that he's a cancer
survivor. He said his appointment as a board member of the African Cancer
Centre made him undergo a routine checkup last year which revealed he had
cancer. He said he diagnosed with the disease in December 2013. "It never occurred to me to
test myself because men have their separate test like women and I have heard
people who lost very dear ones,
closed ones. They just told me, ‘Prof, we hope
you’re having your own?’ And I told them I had one 10 years ago and he said,
“No, no, do it regularly.” And by accident in December last year, I discovered
that I had cancer.”.
Prof Soyinka who is cancer free now after undergoing a vigorous treatment that
ended in October this year, said although he was uncomfortable speaking about
his experience, he was obligated to speak about it now so as to get rid of the
public perception that being diagnosed with cancer is a death sentence
"For me, this is not a decision
which I like but I felt I have all obligation, being a member of African Cancer
Centre, and also having even donated a performance during the festival, fund
raising for cancer, I am under obligation to make it known and to also
demystify cancer. Many people feel it is a death sentence. Family feel it;
friends, colleagues, they begin to look at you as if you are a ghost once there
is rumour you have cancer. No, cancer is not a death sentence, it is curable, I
have undergone the treatment and I am able to tell you that I even have a
model, that’s my certificate.” he said
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