A mum and daughter are battling cancer together after their diagnoses came just weeks apart. North Shields mum Cindy Walker found a lump on the leg of her daughter Lily the day before her third birthday.
After being diagnosed with breast cancer herself only two months earlier, the mum was already aware she had a cancer gene which could have been passed to her child. A week after the lump was found, Cindy received the news she was dreading - Lily also had cancer, known as rhabdomyosarcoma.
Cindy, 35, was completely unaware she had a cancer gene until a distant cousin from Canada - who she'd never met - contacted her to urge her to get checked. Explaining to the Chronicle, Cindy said: "My dad had already had cancer, and he was tested again for the gene, which he does have.
