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Alice lives with a rare childhood cancer. Her Queensland mum is raising awareness

Alice, 5, loves all things pink and pretty, but if you ask her mum she is "all for the rough and tumble of life" as well.

The Queensland girl has had 28 rounds of radiation, weeks of chemotherapy and multiple surgeries since being diagnosed with orbital rhabdomyosarcoma – a rare childhood cancer.

"[It] is a solid tumour that was sitting behind her right eye, intertwined around her orbit and her optic nerve," mum Sian Morley said.

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