Professor Duncan was born in Lagos on the 2nd of October 1931, the first of seven children to a Civil Service Ghanaian Fanti father, Joseph Willie Kofi Duncan and a renowned Fashion Designer Itsekiri Mother, Cecilia Victoria Queenie McNeil. He was nurtured at King’s College, Lagos where he passed the School Certificate in first class division. His medical career began at the University College Ibadan and finished the clinical training at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London University becoming a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London, MRCS, LRCP, in 1958. Six months later he became Bachelor of Medicine and of Surgery, MB, BS. London, in 1959. His House Jobs were at the General Hospital, Lagos after completing the one year internship in the UK. It was in Lagos while working in the Surgical Unit under Mr. A. O. Wilkey, FRCS, that his passion for cancer management was kindled. Accepted for postgraduate training by Professor J.S.Mitchell, Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University, he obtained the diploma in Medical Radiotherapy, DMRT, of the University of London, in 1963. The following year, he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship and admitted into Darwin College, Cambridge, the then newly established post graduate College, as a founder member. After training under Professor Mitchel for two years, he passed the fellowship examination of the Royal College of Radiology of England, FRCR, thus becoming the first Radiotherapeutic Oncologist in West Africa. During the post graduate program, he was exposed to a variety of top grade learning skills from Professor Sven Hultberg at the Radium Hemet in Stockholm Sweden; through Professor Eric Eason at the Cancer Centre at Manchester, to the renowned Professor Robert McWhirter of the Breast Cancer fame, at Edinburgh University. Business Plan 60 He returned to the College of Medicine and the University of Lagos as a Lecturer in Radiotherapy and Consultant in the Teaching Hospital. By his works and publications, he was awarded a Fellow of the Nigerian Medical Council in Radiology, FMCR, and later, Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons, FWACS, in 1974. In the early stages of the radiation medicine at Lagos University, there was no facility for radiating tumours. The government of Canada donated a Cobalt 60 machine to College of Medicine. An old derelict orthovoltage machine abandoned in the General Hospital Lagos was demanded and given to the radiotherapy Unit. With these, and the contribution of late Professor T. Fregene, a medical physicist also trained at Cambridge by Professor J. S. Mitchell, patients received palliative radiotherapy. The birth of cancer management as we know it today in Nigeria was contrived by the joint efforts of Professor M. A. Majekodunmi, Federal Minister of Health and Professor H. O. Thomas the Dean of the College of Medicine and Provost, Lagos University Teaching Hospital. He has remained exclusively in the practice of Oncology. He is the Head of Department of Cancer Care Medicine at EKO Hospital, a private Hospital with a functioning Cobalt 60 machine, a position he has held for over a decade. Professor Duncan is a keen sportsman and has excelled in cricket, tennis, squash racket, swimming and golf. He is presently the Chairman of Dizengoff Nigeria, British Company with Nigerian shareholders, established in Nigeria for more than forty years.