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Emma Dunn & Lottie Gibbons

Mum had 'gut feeling' something was wrong with her son after holiday

A mum is urging parents to "trust your instincts" after a tiny change to her son's eye turned out to be a rare cancer.

Jessica, 35, and Lee Neal, 38, noticed son Ted's face swelled while they were on holiday. They thought he had rubbed sand into his eye at the beach - but Jessica had a gut feeling something wasn’t right.

Tests revealed the tot had a cancerous tumour in one of his sinuses, so rare it didn't even have a name until Janurary 2022. Within a week his face had completely changed and he was diagnosed with unspecified sarcoma, which has now been named as mesenchymal chondrosarcoma, in his ethmoid sinus and had chemotherapy and surgery.

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