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Woman with rare cancer cannot chew, yawn

 

Teresia Njeri explains how she is managing a rare cancer of the jaw. Half of her jaw has been removed. [Jenipher Wachie. Standard]

Apart from a scar on her upper lip and her intonation, nothing else tells you about Teresia Njeri’s painful battle with a type of cancer that saw part of her jaw removed.

It has been almost two years of struggling for the 35-year-old nursery school teacher who was diagnosed with Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma. The cancer is relatively rare and most commonly develops in the salivary glands.

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