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Wales Online
Wales Online
Health
Mark Smith

'I was so worried about my daughter's cancer that I failed to notice I had the disease too'

When Alison Young found out her youngest daughter Mia had been diagnosed with leukaemia after failing a routine eye test at school, her world fell apart.

The six-year-old spent the next two years having chemotherapy and will now need a bone marrow transplant to stand any chance of survival.

But even more heartache was to follow for the family when Alison herself was found to have secondary breast cancer just eight months on from Mia's own diagnosis.

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