I made it - cancer survivor

Cancer may have taken a lot from her but not her own soul. "Cancer was a stranger in my body. And I refused to die," she said. Dimbungu has survived the 'silent killer.' Most have not been so lucky. Among them are her mother who died of cervical cancer in 1996 at the age of 58 and her father who died of prostate cancer last year.

Also gone are her two uncles, one killed by throat cancer in 1974 and the other killed by lung cancer in 1998. Dimbungu, a mother of four was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. It all started in the bathroom. "I was bathing when I did a self examination on my breasts, and I felt a lump in my left breast," she said sitting back in her chair.