Just when she visited her gastroenterologist at Bombay Hospital to inform that she had completed the two-year therapy of a drug for Hepatitis C, Radhika Sachdev, a media professional at the peak of her career found she had a cancerous liver tumour. A few weeks later, tough and optimistic, Sachdev decided to sail through an impending liver transplant procedure only to be told that pre-cancerous cells had been detected in her breasts.

A single mother, her world came crashing down around her when she was issued a three months' deadline in June 2016 to have a transplant done. Recalling her challenging journey, the double cancer survivor says, "In some cases, Hepatitis C leads to liver cirrhosis. In my case, the cirrhotic liver started producing tumours that were growing very fast.