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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Thomas

Teenage boy was told his tumour was just a pulled muscle - now it’s terminal

Jack Constable (left) with his mother and father Katie and Jeremy - (Katie Constable)

It was Katie Constable’s 50th birthday when doctors delivered the life-changing news that her 17-year-old son Jack had a rare cancer – just months after he’d been told by a GP nurse that it was nothing but a pulled muscle.

“Jack had no symptoms whatsoever…he’s six foot three, he was slim,” his mother said. “He was a normal healthy lad. There weren’t any symptoms. ‘Then he said one day omg what is this lump I’ve got cancer.”

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