A Croydon mum received the worst shock of her life when her four-year-old daughter's stomach aches turned out to be a rare form of cancer. Brodie Burgess was seen by three doctors who could not determine the source of the issue before she was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma after a scan at Great Ormond Street Hospital showed up a 10cm tumour in 2019.
She subsequently spent eight months in a specialist children's hospital where she underwent chemotherapy, with 35-year-old mum Cherie Burgess telling MyLondon: "It was scary because her cancer was so aggressive. We didn't know if she was gonna make it or not.
"All of a sudden she had this lump on her pelvis. You hear about these things happening, but you never imagine it’ll be your child.
