Cancer in Nigeria: 'My wife would still be alive had she got treatment'

My journey to widowerhood began three years ago in an oncologist's office in Nigeria's capital, Abuja. Had my wife, Grace, followed the doctor's advice rather than seek the help of religious healers, I believe that she would have survived breast cancer and still be with me and our three-year-old daughter. She had gone for tests on a large lump on her breast and the doctor said they had revealed that there was an "invasive carcinoma". I did not understand what this meant and he explained that "the tumour is cancerous and we need to begin the process of managing it...