{"id":752598,"date":"2019-11-26T18:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/26\/wole-soyinka-reveals-he-was-diagnosed-with-prostrate-cancer\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T18:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:45:24","slug":"wole-soyinka-reveals-he-was-diagnosed-with-prostrate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/26\/wole-soyinka-reveals-he-was-diagnosed-with-prostrate-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wole Soyinka Reveals He Was Diagnosed With Prostrate Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_685377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-685377\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-685377\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Wole-Soyinka-e1458147341194.jpg\" alt=\"Wole Soyinka\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-685377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with BBC, Soyinka spoke on using advanced technology, \u2018proton therapy\u2019, to treat it.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cIt hadn\u2019t yet gotten to the stage where it was non-reversible and so (the doctor) gave us a number of guidelines. I say us because he wanted to make sure that my wife made sure that I followed it. He sensed that I wasn\u2019t going to be a very good patient. So he spoke to her most of the time rather than me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Wole Soyinka Blasts Buhari Over New Charges Against Sowore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no disease in the world any human being needs to be ashamed.<br \/>I don\u2019t see why people need to go to Canada, Europe to receive treatment which is affordable in this nation, it is a shame.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe options I compared to other treatment I know about and I have seen in operation. Mine for me was an easy ride, uncomfortable in many ways but it is painless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2014. Speaking with BBC, Soyinka spoke on using advanced technology, \u2018proton therapy\u2019, to treat it. He said: \u201cIt hadn\u2019t yet gotten to the stage where it was non-reversible and so (the doctor) gave us a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wole Soyinka Reveals He Was Diagnosed With Prostrate Cancer - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/26\/wole-soyinka-reveals-he-was-diagnosed-with-prostrate-cancer\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Wole Soyinka Reveals He Was Diagnosed With Prostrate Cancer - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2014. 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