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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Jessica Lone Summers & Nicole Wootton-Cane

'I'll never be the same person after a nightmare tumour in my BUM'

A mum was left in 'unbearable pain' and battling PTSD after she was diagnosed with a rare tumour in her BUM just two months before her wedding day.

Lauren Jennings rushed to hospital in June 2019 after experiencing searing pain and being unable to walk or sit upright. She was left shocked after she was diagnosed with a rare tumour known as a sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT), that usually affects babies.

The mum-of-two was told she had a huge mass at the base of her spine and needed surgery urgently - but said she felt she 'couldn't' fall apart for the sake of her twin boys Jack and Freddie, aged just two at the time.

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