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Cancer patients wait to sign in or for their number to be called at the Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital. Sometimes they have to wait more than a day to be seen by a doctor, but they wait because they canâ™t make appointments in advance. (Photo by Carolyn Taylor)
A young boy with Burkittâ™s Lymphoma stands in a ward of Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital. This type of malarial-based lymphoma is common to South East Asia, as well as curable. (Photo by Carolyn Taylor)
Cervical cancer patients sit on their beds in a small section of Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital. (Photo by Carolyn Taylor)
Patients have given up trying to share a bed and are now just sleeping under them in Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital. (Photo by Carolyn Taylor)
A Vietnamese man sits patiently waiting to be treated in Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital. (Photo by Carolyn Taylor)
The one-man pathology department works tirelessly using the one microscope Can Tho Oncology Hospital owns. (Photo by Carolyn Taylor)
Doctors diagnosed Ngu Hue Chau with breast cancer when she was just 35 years old. She had a mastectomy and chemotherapy only for her cancer to return in late 2009. She said she tries to be positive to prevent the disease from spreading. (Photo by Carolyn Taylor)
This womanâ™s paraplegic son, Luu Van Hue, was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in September 2010. She and her other son stay with him at the hospital as caregivers. (Photo by Carolyn Taylor)
Patients wait to be treated in Ung Buou ward at Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital. The conditions patients are staying in here are typical to other hospitals: two and three in each bed, often accompanied by their caregivers. (Photo by Carolyn Taylor)
Two Vietnamese women sit in the womenâ™s breast cancer ward at the K1 Hospital in
Hanoi. There are nine wards on the floor with each ward taking up 10 feet by 18 feet with four beds and cots for every 100 patients. (Photo by Carolyn Taylor)
Children share floor space with their families and caregivers in the childrenâ™s section of Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital. (Photo by Carolyn Taylor)
A child receives treatment in Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital. Because of overcrowding, patients are often forced to sleep, eat and be treated in hallways and on the floor. (Photo by Carolyn Taylor)
Carolyn Taylor, third from the right, is founder of Global Focus on Cancer, an organization that aims to promote cancer awareness globally. (Photo courtesy of Carolyn Taylor).
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