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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Olivia Williams

Mum, 22, with no symptoms told she may only have a few years left with her children

A mum said she wouldn't have found out she had stage four cancer if she wasn't pregnant.

Emma Brooke, from Thornton, was in and out of hospital with cholestasis of the liver while she was pregnant with her youngest child Alfie. The 22-year-old went for an ultrasound so doctors could get a clearer view of her liver, however medics found a 10cm tumour on her right kidney.

The mum-of-three was induced at 37 weeks, in July last year, so doctors could get a clearer view of her kidney, but just two weeks after giving birth Emma had to have it removed. On September 15 last year, Emma was diagnosed with papillary renal cell carcinoma - a type of kidney cancer.

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