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Sophie Brownson

Shiremoor family's heartbreak as happy little girl, four, diagnosed with cancer after pain in leg - and their message to parents

A Shiremoor mum has shared her heartbreak after discovering her four-year-old daughter has leukaemia as she issues an urgent message to other parents.

Sophia Hughes and Andrew Smith's world turned upside down when they received the shock diagnosis that their little girl had cancer.

Sophia, 36, took her daughter, Olivia Hughes-Smith, back and forth to the doctors over of the course a week, with a gut feeling that something was wrong after she began to complain of pain in her left leg.

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