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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

A fake cancer patient was exposed on TikTok. Now, genuine survivors are asking donors not to give up on them

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Iowa teenager Maddie Russo first revealed her “pancreatic cancer diagnosis” in an interview withThe North Scott Press’s former editor Scott Campbell last October.

Ms Russo, 19, told the veteran newsman that after an initial diagnosis eight months earlier, she’d been told by doctors that same day that the cancer had developed into a “football-sized” tumour.

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