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Family unites for World's Greatest Shave in Swan Hill after grandmother beats leukaemia

Members of the Neville family travelled to Swan Hill to take part in the World's Greatest Shave event. (ABC Mildura-Swan Hill: Francesco Salvo)

In 2012, Jan Neville was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer known as acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APML).

Flown hundreds of kilometres from her hometown of Hopetoun, in north-west Victoria, to Geelong, the grandmother underwent six months of treatment including cytotoxic therapy and then intense arsenic therapy, which made her hair fall out.

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