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In April, 46-year-old Deepti De noticed a lump the size of a table tennis ball protruding from her throat. She lived with her husband and two sons a few kilometers away from Jorhat town, in the northeast Indian state of Assam. Her younger son Rinku, 30, a medical representative, took her to a doctor he knew […]