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EXCLUSIVEA doctor dismissed my brave ten-year-old's bleeding as a period. But my instinct told me something was wrong - and tragically, it was stomach cancer. My experience is not unique

Wrapping her arms around her ten-year-old daughter, Charlotte Fairall faced a heartbreaking task. She had to explain that nothing more could be done to treat Sophie's cancer.

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04.12.2024, 16:26

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Wrapping her arms around her ten-year-old daughter, Charlotte Fairall faced a heartbreaking task.

She had to explain that not only had the cancer Sophie had been diagnosed with less than a year ago returned – there was nothing more that could be done to treat it.

‘What mother wants to break that sort of news to her daughter who hadn’t even made it to her teens?’ says Charlotte.

‘All the hopes and dreams that we had for her… I held her tight as I told her what the doctors had said. She knew this was it, and she cried.’

But then, through her tears, Sophie said something that took her mother’s breath away. ‘She looked at me and said: “I need to make the most of every day I have left, Mum”,’ recalls Charlotte, 44.

‘I always knew she was brave, but until she said those words, I didn’t realise just how brave. From that day on she never cried again, she got on with making the most of every day. That’s what I’m most proud of Sophie for.’

Along with her vow to make the most of what little time she had, Sophie wanted to improve the experience of cancer treatment endured by other children.

After going through aggressive chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment for rhabdomyosarcoma – a soft tissue cancer more common in children than adults – Sophie believed current treatments were outdated.

Sophie Fairall appears on ITV's This Morning alongside her mother Charlotte in 2021

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