The parents of an 11-year-old girl diagnosed with a rare form of cancer have shared the moment they received the shock diagnosis.
Chantelle Triffitt, of Grimsby, had developed a limp at age nine. She was feeling leg pain which continued for weeks and got so bad her parents took her to A&E for an x-ray.
Doctors told her family they had spotted something they had never seen before. The schoolgirl was referred to a specialist paediatric doctor, who diagnosed her with Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH), a rare form of cancer in her right pelvic bone, reports Grimsby Live.
While she has beaten the cancer for now, there remains a risk of it returning. Her treatment has left her with a vulnerable immune system, meaning the family have to take
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