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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eleanor Fleming

Woman diagnosed with same cancer as late husband after stomach ache

A woman who was given just six months to live after being diagnosed with the same cancer as her late husband has defied expectations to meet her first grandchild.

Ann Lally, 70, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer in June 2024, just three months after her husband Mike, who had been given the same diagnosis, died of a heart attack aged 75.

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