The Cameroon Medical Mission of Hope 2013 organized by the African Women’s Cancer Awareness Association (AWCAA) and the Michael & Mauritia Patcha Foundation, (The Patcha Foundation – maintains a Country Office in Douala, Cameroon) took place in four localities of the South West Region of Cameroon from the 3rd to the 10th of June 2013.
Based on the experience of these organizations working with Cancer patients of Cameroonian / African descents in the diaspora, and their support to cancer cases on the African continent, and given the “high level of ignorance” to the root, symptoms and manifestations of the disease, both organizations deemed it necessary to conduct this mission in Cameroon.