Slightly smaller than Oregon, Uganda is home to 28 million people. In this developing country, where 40 percent of the people live on less than $1 a day, cancer education and screening are rare, diagnoses come late, and treatments are often not available. At last count, in 1998, Uganda had only two radiation units and one chemotherapy unit, and only about 5 percent of cancer patients had access to these facilities. Statistics indicate that the median age of a person diagnosed with breast cancer in Uganda is 45, and for a cervical cancer diagnosis it is 43. Among black Americans in the U.S., it is 56 and 49, respectively. And the prognosis for most Ugandans with cancer is poor: Only 45 percent of breast cancer patients and 18 percent of cervical cancer patients survive five years after diagnosis, in part, researchers believe, because their cancers are diagnosed at late stages. Among black Americans, the five-year survival rates are 75 percent and 66 percent.