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On Christmas Eve of 2017, Deborah Chebet and her mother sang along to carols as they cooked in preparation for a Christmas feast. This has been their tradition since Chebet was young. Two weeks after the feast, they sat face to face with a doctor at the Eldoret Referral Hospital who told them their mother was dying.
She had collapsed on her way from the market. A scan revealed a tumour in her lungs. Further tests confirmed Stage Four lung cancer.
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