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Kat Wong

Family wants better cancer medicine after losing Emily

Kate Cantrell says it wasn't cancer that killed her niece Emily Borg, but the treatment side-effect. (HANDOUT/KATE CANTRELL)

Oncology patient Emily Borg was cancer-free when she died aged five.

Her immune system had been obliterated by the treatment designed to save her life, so when she caught a rare fungal infection weeks after, her body could not fight it off.

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