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The price of surival: How cancer is driving Kenyan families into debt

Acute myeloid leukaemia research, conceptual illustration. [Courtesy]

In a modest apartment block in Gurugram, on the outskirts of New Delhi, the door to Room 204 rarely stays shut.

Inside, a Kenyan family has spent the last six months suspended between hope and uncertainty. The husband is battling tongue cancer.

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