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How a Nine year old Nigerian boy survived acute myeloid leukemia in the UK

By Guardian Exclusive
14 September 2021   |   11:00 am
This nine-year-old Nigerian boy has been declared cancer-free after readers of two UK newspapers raised £216,000 for his treatment. Nathaniel Nabena had gone to the UK from his hometown in Bayelsa, Nigeria, in September 2020 to get a prosthetic eye after his left eye was removed due to cancer.

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