Despite the fame she now has, life hasn’t always been rosy for the star, at one time diagnosed with cancer. “It started with the lymph nodes under my armpits swelling up a bit and throbbing during my periods,” says Bwire. Globocan 2018 statistics show that the breast cancer incidence rate in Kenya is estimated at 40.3 per 100,000 with a mortality rate of 17.8 per 100,000. The annual incidence of breast cancer in Kenya is approximately 12.5 per cent of all new cancer cases and the annual mortality is approximately 7.7 per cent of all cancer deaths. She set up the Bwire Ndubi Warriors Foundation to spread the word about cancer and encourage people to get screened.

Source: The Star August 05, 2023 15:00 UTC