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Daniela Loffreda & Saffron Otter

Teen who started out with hip pain told she has weeks to live but 'still smiling'

A teenager with terminal cancer who has been told she may only have weeks left to live has opened up about remaining positive despite her diagnosis.

Margaret Adcock, known as Maggie, 17, has found the strength to keep on smiling and still plans to pursue her love of travel and see the world in the time she has left.

Maggie, from Hilton, South Derbyshire, was diagnosed with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma - one of the most aggressive forms of cancer in children - on May 27 last year after she started out with hip pain.

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