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A schoolgirl who thought she had standard ‘growing pains’ ended up being diagnosed with cancer.
Ivie Adams, 11, feared she would die after heartbreakingly being told that she had a 26cm tumour growing in her leg.
Chemotherapy made her ill and cruelly robbed her of her long, brown hair, although she is now cancer-free.
Ivie had to learn to walk again after her gruelling treatment, which saw her leg bone replaced with an artificial implant.
Recalling the moment she was told she had cancer, Ivie, of Sittingbourne, Kent, said: ‘Even though I didn't think much of it when I was first diagnosed, all I knew is that I didn't want to die.
Ivie Adams, 11, feared she would die after heartbreakingly being told that she had a 26cm tumour growing in her leg
Recalling the moment she was told she had cancer, Ivie said: ‘Even though I didn't think much of it when I was first diagnosed, all I knew is that I didn't want to die.
‘The first round of chemo was really horrible as it made me sick and I was worried it was going to happen again when I had the second dose.’
Ivie, was last summer diagnosed with a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour (MPNSTs).
The rare cancer, thought to affect only one in 100,000 people, typically grows in the legs, but can crop up anywhere.
Ivie’s tumour went from the top of her knee into her femur, the bone running through the thigh into the hip.
She first complained of pains in her leg last May.
Yet her family thought they were either age-related – growing pains are common in
