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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Athena Stavrou & Kieren Williams

Dad gets terminal diagnosis while daughter battles leukaemia in 'devastating' bad luck

A dad had his “entire world turned upside down” in a horror brain tumour diagnosis - whilst his daughter battled leukaemia.

Richard Brown, 46, had long been excited to watch his young daughter Mabel, now five, ring the bell to signify the end of her cancer treatment in August 2022.

However when that day finally came, Richard was in another ward in the same hospital, being treated for his own cancer diagnosis.

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