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Scots missionary's heroic daily battle to cut cancer deaths in Africa

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A Scots nurse-turned-missionary is fighting to cut cancer deaths in a country with only one specialist hospital for 17million people.Ida Waddell is campaigning to open screening and care services in four hospitals and six clinics in rural areas of impoverished Zambia.The trained theatre nurse, 64, who was raised in Port Glasgow and Fife, swapped life in Scotland for southern Africa 12 years ago to tackle the problem.She said very few people suffering from cervical, prostate and breast cancer are able to access treatment.An estimated 3000 new cases of cervical cancer are reported each year and 71 per cent of women die despite it being a treatable disease.Ida, who has been compared to ­Victorian era Dundee missionary Mary Slessor – now is

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