A twin has shared her heartbreak after her sister was diagnosed with a rare and terminal cancer. Lyndsey Allen, 35, who lives in Meden Vale, was diagnosed with a rare and terminal cancer after she started feeling unwell while exercising at the start of the first Covid lockdown in April 2020.
Her twin sister Leanne Allen, 35, who moved into a home with her sibling in 2017, has spoken of how the neuroendocrine cancer diagnosis her sister received had 'ripped her family apart' and how she's praying Lyndsey will make it to September. A neuroendocrine tumour is a rare tumour that can develop in many different organs of the body and affects the cells that release hormones into the bloodstream.
"At the beginning of Covid when she started exercising more that's when problems started. We used to go out walking during that hour a day so we'd go 10 miles, and then she got to the point where she couldn't do it anymore because she kept on needing the toilet so many times a day," Leanne said.
