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Ben Barry, SWNS & Jasmine Norden

21-year-old Leeds woman's bruises on legs turn out to be leukaemia

A Leeds woman was diagnosed with leukaemia after she started noticing bruises on her arms and legs.

Emily Land, 21, went to see her GP after she started finding the bruises. She was sent to St James' Hospital in October 2021 for blood tests and was told that very day that she had acute myeloid leukaemia - cancer of the white blood cells.

Emily, a student, had four rounds of chemotherapy, and was given the all clear in July 2022 - but only six weeks later she relapsed. She was told in August that she would need a bone marrow transplant to get rid of her leukaemia.

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