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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Emmie Norton & Sophie Goodall

Woman, 36, dies after pins and needles turns out to be aggressive form of brain cancer

A woman, whose sister's seemingly harmless "pins and needles" turned out to be cancer, has shared her story to warn others of unusual symptoms.

When Lydia Carfrae-Brohaska first began experiencing tingling in her extremities, she thought nothing of it.

But the symptoms rapidly spread to her legs and eventually she struggled to use the left side of her body.

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