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The month was January; the year, 2004. Catherine Ngaracu-Mutua felt a pimple-like growth on her breast. “The small lump was not even painful,” she says. “I was not in distress; neither was I in any kind of pain. Nothing was unusual.”

She ignored it. A couple of months down the line, Catherine realised that the tiny ‘thing’ had grown into a conspicuous and palpable lump. An FNA test revealed that she had breast cancer, and she was advised to lose the infected breast (through a mastectomy) or risk the cancer spreading to other parts of the body.

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