October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign aimed at increasing awareness of the disease. Globally, breast cancer kills more women than any of the other cancers combined. In Kenya, it is not just breast cancer that is ravaging families, but other cancers too have become a pain, killing nearly 32, 000 Kenyans annually. Our reporter Nimrod Taabu traversed over five counties in the last one year to bring you harrowing stories of cancer patients from the elderly, middle aged, the youth and even children. In this first part of a two part series titled 'Cancer Country', Nimrod takes a journey into the lives of 70 year old Timothy Mutua from Korogocho slums who is ailing from prostate cancer, 45-year old Mama Njoki with cancer of the cervix, 51 year old Jane Nyambura from Dandora who has breast cancer as well as Hannah Wambui whose painful wounds just never seem to go away. These are just among the few painful stories highlighted in this special report.
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