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Evening Standard
Hannah Roberts and Lisa McLoughlin

Paula Radcliffe says watching her daughter undergo chemotherapy was ‘horrible’

Celebrated marathon runner Paula Radcliffe has said it was “horrible” to watch her daughter Isla undergo chemotherapy and described it as “the hardest thing a parent can go through”.

A decade on from Radcliffe’s final London Marathon and her 18-year-old daughter, who was diagnosed and treated for cancer in 2020, will be running her first 26.2-mile race in the capital.

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