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Health
Emily Verdouw

Baby Jasper's brave battle with rare nerve cell cancer

Baby Jasper was born with a rare cancer known as neuroblastoma. (HANDOUT/MATER HOSPITAL)

Two weeks before giving birth, soon-to-be parents Lauren and Jaiger Hill checked in for a routine scan where a 7cm tumour was found between their baby's heart and spine. As Lauren left the hospital that day, anxious thoughts consumed her.

"I didn't know, you know, was I going to have him or was he going to pass away," she recalled thinking, on Saturday.

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