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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Freya Coombes & Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas

'Doctors thought my young son was just constipated - but he actually had cancer'

A single mum says doctors told her that her eight-year-old son was simply 'constipated' - only to later find that he had cancer.

Victoria Stainton, 45, took young Harrison to a GP in November last year after noticing he was struggling to breathe.

She says her doctor informed her that her son's symptoms were likely due to constipation and prescribed him laxatives - but when he was rushed to hospital one day later, a chest X-ray showed his lungs were filled with fluid.

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