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Phoebe Fuller

Teenage girl 'stunned' as tiredness and daytime napping turn out to be cancer symptoms

A young woman was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer after wrongly assuming low iron levels were causing tiredness.

Jess Mellor was 19 when doctors told her that she had chronic myeloid leukemia - a type of cancer that affects white blood cells in the body.

University student Jess was in her second year of an Aerospace Engineering degree at the University of Leeds when she began to experience extreme fatigue.

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