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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Eleanor Fleming

Girl diagnosed with rare cancer after symptoms dismissed as growing pains

The mother of a five-year-old girl, whose initial symptoms were tragically mistaken for common pains before a heartbreaking turn of events, has spoken of her disbelief after her daughter received a rare cancer diagnosis.

Madeleine Shipp, 28, a stay-at-home mother-of-three from Essex, described how the news "still does not feel real" after her daughter Aubrey, now six, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).

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