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Lucy Marshall & Tim Hanlon

Inspirational transplantee, 12, calls donor her 'hero' after surviving cancer

An inspirational schoolgirl is raising awareness for the need for organ donations and calls her "hero" the woman who "saved her life" by giving her a liver transplant.

Emelie Austin, now 12, from Cheadle Hulme, was diagnosed with the rare hepatoblastoma cancer when aged two and she had to have an operation to remove some of the tumour at Leeds Children's Hospital, in 2012.

Then after having chemotherapy her parents Becky and Dave Austin were told that she would need a liver transplant, reported LeedsLive.

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