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Young warrior has never lived a day without kidney cancer

Olive Waruguru with her mother Margaret Wambui at the Naivasha Sub-County Hospital in Nakuru County. [Kipsang Joseph]

She is cheerful as she runs up and down playing at the Palliative Care Unit at the Naivasha Hospital. Today, the four-year-old is undergoing a therapeutic session, meant to relieve her from the pain that comes with cancer disease.

Meet Olive Waruguru, the youngest cancer survivor at the hospital. Little Waruguru is suffering from kidney cancer (nephroblastoma), a disease she was diagnosed with at three years.

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