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Lucy Marshall

'Incredible' schoolgirl living with cancer on a mission to help others like her as she takes part in British Transplant Games in Leeds

An "incredible" school girl is urging people to learn about organ donation after it changed her life.

Emelie Austin is living with a rare liver cancer, known as hepatoblastoma, after her diagnosis in 2012. The now 12-year-old, from Cheadle Hulme in Greater Manchester, spent much of her time at Leeds Children's Hospital where she had an operation to remove some of the cancer at just age two.

She was really poorly after she had to go through a "gruelling" course of chemotherapy. Her parents Becky and Dave learnt their daughter would need a liver transplant. "We didn't want to get our hopes up", they said, knowing how long the transplant waiting list would be.

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