Nineteen-year-old Nicola Thounaojam has spent the last eight months of her life in hospital rooms, hounded by the constant fear that she could have cancer of the urinary bladder. After finding over 12 tumours in the girl’s bladder, doctors diagnosed her with a rare disease of the ureter, which had caused her kidneys to swell.

Out of harm’s way: Nicola’s doctor performed a laser surgery and removed the tumours