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Leg fracture led to cancer and death within three months

By Graham Kajilwa | 6yrs ago

Randy Mutua who succumbed to bone cancer. [Graham Kajilwa]

How a simple fracture on Randy Mutua's leg turned to be osteogenic sarcoma, cancer of the bone, is a puzzle that his father Antony Siku is yet to understand.

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