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Yvonne Akinyi: How I found voice and vigour after breast cancer diagnosis

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Self-breast cancer check-up. [Getty Images]

The common belief that life cannot be easy nor better and that humanity only gets more adaptive by being resilient has never been epitomized by the gallant cancer survivors whose grit and will to overcome their life-threatening affliction is nothing but an inspiration.

Yvonne Akinyi is one such fighter made of steel.

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