Cancer of blood that killed Collymore difficult to treat

Prof Othieno Abinya, an oncologist at Nairobi Hospital. [David Njaaa, Standard]

From the outside, Livingstone Simiyu appears perfectly healthy. Unless he opens up, one would never know that the 27-year-old has been living with chronic myeloid leukaemia, a type of blood cancer, since 2013.

“You cannot tell that I am sick. I am normal, the only difference is that I have to take drugs daily,” he says.