In Algeria, breast cancer survivors are shunned as "half-women"

Hundreds of Algerian women are abandoned by their husbands or fiances after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Photos: RYAD KRAMDI/AFP Photo.

As if losing a breast to cancer was not traumatic enough, Algerian mother-of-three Linda was then spurned by her husband for being “mutilated” and a “half-woman”.

“Cancer? It’s nothing compared with being rejected after 18 years of marriage,” the 50-year-old medical assistant said, still clearly upset years later.