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Katie Sands

'Headaches and jaw pain led to my rare cancer diagnosis aged 25'

A 26-year-old woman who has been battling a rare form of cancer for 11 months is urging others to trust their bodies and not give up if they think something is wrong.

Christie Williams, from Aberfan, had a benign tumour in her neck six years ago and once it was removed says she was told by doctors that she would unlikely have another.

But, almost 18 months ago, severe headaches and jaw pain led her to think something was wrong. Medics would later find that a tumour had grown back in the same place, but this time it was a rare form of cancer: sarcoma.

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