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Paige Oldfield & Rachel Hains

Parents thought daughter was growing slowly - then found she had disorder affecting just 300 people

Despite only being five years old, Holly Prince is battling cancer for the third time.

Suffering from a rare illness, Holly was first diagnosed with Bloom Syndrome at three years old, after her parents, Mark and Jenny, noticed she was growing slowly.

Just one of 300 people who suffer from the rare disorder worldwide, the Manchester Evening News reports that people with the condition can be of unusually small size, have sensitivity to sunlight, immune system deficiencies and an extraordinarily high risk of developing cancer.

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