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Boy tells of six years of misery as he battles cancer

Shadrack Ouma in class at Nasira AC Primary School, Matayos, on June 14, 2019. [Ignatius Odanga]

It started as a small swelling on the mouth of Shadrack Ouma six years ago. His grandmother Mary Mukadi thought it would disappear but it refuses to disappear.

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