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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Tom Haynes & Kieran Isgin

DARK SECRETS: Mum devastated after doctors diagnosis four year old s stomach pains - The Real Truth

A devastated mum received the worst news of her life when she was informed her four-year-old daughter's stomach aches were actually a rare form of cancer.

Brodie Burgess was examined by three different doctors who were unable to figure out the source of the issues, until she was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma. A scan at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Croydon, revealed a 10cm tumour in 2019.

Following the diagnosis, Brodie spent eight months in a specialist children's hospital where she had to undergo chemotherapy. Mum Cherie Burgess told My London : "It was scary because her cancer was so aggressive. We didn't know if she was gonna make it or not. All of a sudden she had this lump on her pelvis.

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