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The cost of cancer for 28-year-old Alice Mwangwe is measured in years of treatment, chemotherapy, hospital bills and the continuing uncertainty of living with a disease that changed her life.
In her mid-20s, Alice began struggling to breathe. She was coughing and, at times, collapsing. Her first diagnosis was tuberculosis, and she took TB medication for six months.
But the swelling on her neck and the coughs did not disappear.