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Neil Shaw

'Hospital told me Ella was constipated, she's now on her seventh round of chemo'

A hospital has launched a probe over a mum's claims that doctors missed her daughter's cancer - instead telling her it was constipation. Claire Formby, 38, says she feels let down by the care given to Ella Formby-Smith, three.

The NHS worker claims her daughter was checked over three times before she was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma - a rare and aggressive cancer. Ella is now having chemotherapy.

And Claire said: "We’ve been told she could have been born with this. I'm just feeling so let down with the number of times we’ve been back and forth.

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