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I’M GOING TO BEAT THE BIG C

WHEN she looked at her youngest child she wanted to cry. How do you explain to an 11-year-old girl she has a dangerous form of cancer – and that the only way to stop it from killing her is to have a major internal organ removed?

Suné Herselman didn’t know where she was going to find the words because she couldn’t understand it herself. Just a little while ago her pre-teen had been playing with dolls – now she was having to deal with a disease that usually strikes women in their fifties or sixties.

Nita-Jané had uterine cancer and not only did she have to get her head around the fact she had a life-threatening disease, she also needed a hysterectomy

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