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Lebanese cancer patients face frantic search for medication

by Fay AbuelgasimBassem Mroue
| September 13, 2021 11:27 PM

QLEIAT, Lebanon (AP) — Saydi Mubarak and her mother share a bond that goes beyond a close mother-daughter relationship: They were both diagnosed with breast cancer a year ago and underwent months of chemotherapy at a Beirut hospital, together facing the anxiety, the hair loss and the uncertainty for the future.

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