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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Patrick Edrich

'Kind-hearted' mum dies of cancer after being told back pain was caused by 'old age'

The devastated family of a mum who died of cancer just months after she was told she had a 'trapped nerve' have spoken of their heartbreak.

Helen Etheridge, 68, first complained of a pain in her back in October 2020, but this was put down as nothing more than a trapped nerve.

The mum-of-two, who lived in Crosby, said the pain was because of "old age".

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