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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Peter Craig & Antony Thrower

Brave girl, 11, is first person in UK to beat rare cancer after leg amputation

A brave schoolgirl has entered the record books as the first person to beat a rare cancer thanks to a pioneering new treatment.

Jeanie-May Cooke, 11, was diagnosed in 2017 with leukaemia and histiocytic sarcoma, which spread to her lungs, kidneys and liver a year later.

The family was told there was nothing much more which could be done and was sent to St Andrew’s Hospice.

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