Scots teen who lost arm during chemo and studied from hospital bed smashes exams

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An inspirational Scots teen who lost her arm to cancer has received the grades she needs to go to university after studying from her hospital bed.Skye Duncan, 18, smashed her Higher exams and received an A and four Bs despite missing three years of school as she recovered from her limb amputation and had chemotherapy.Skye, from Glasgow, completed lessons online while she was in hospital and is now off to the University of Glasgow to study law.Twin sister Sara also bagged good grades and will be joining her sister at the university to study neuroscience."I am proud of myself," Skye said."I'm usually very confident but going through this did knock my confidence a bit.

So I'm really pleased I got here."Five years ago, Skye complained to parents Ann and Steven that she had a sore arm."It didn't go away, and we went back and forwards with the doctors, trying to find out what was causing it," explains Ann, a support worker for a homeless service."Eventually, she had an x-ray, and they discovered it was bone cancer.

They amputated her arm within a few weeks and then she had months of chemotherapy. But through it all, Skye was so driven, it was unbelievable."Ann adds: "Sara is amazing, she has also worked so hard.

She missed a lot of school too, and she was always there for her sister."Skye's success is all the more impressive because in March, just as she was preparing for the exams, she was told the cancer had returned."I had a sore back, and they discovered it was a collapsed lung, but actually that was really lucky," she says, surprisingly."If I hadn't had that, they wouldn't have discovered the cancer was in my right lung.