Shamim Nabuuma Kaliisa: survivor takes on cancer with AI

When Shamim Nabuuma Kaliisa first had chest pain, she was in the second year of her medical degree at Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda). She was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was barely in her 20s. "Being told that you have cancer is one of the worst things anyone can hear", she told The Lancet Oncology. "It comes with a feeling of not having a future, with the imagination of pain until death." Luckily, at stage I, her breast cancer was treatable, but the pain she went through during the long treatment process was unbearable.