Career nurse Penelope Layne has been quietly leading an army of three at the Guyana Cancer Registry for the last twelve years. It is still in its embryonic stage but it is through the work done by the trio in their small Oronoque Street, Queenstown office that Guyana can determine the prevalence of cancer.
“The most important reason for a country having a cancer registry is to know the country’s burden of cancer… That is the only way you can know how to get a cancer programme going and where
