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Hannah Van De Peer & Chiara Fiorillo

Twins, 16, get cancer symptoms at exactly the same time - but only one has it

A teenage girl started suffering from cancer symptoms when her identical twin was diagnosed in 2017 - despite not having the disease herself.

Sophie Walker, 16, was diagnosed with a Wilms' tumour - a type of kidney cancer - on October 25, 2017, and started a four-week course of chemotherapy shortly after.

In the five years since, she has gone into remission twice - but relapsed four times.

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