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18-Sep-2007 - Mum's run against cancer of 2 year old
Mum's run against cancer
Debbie Faraday is set to take part in the Great North Run
A loving cuddle saved a little girl's life after it alerted her grandmother to an early sign of cancer. Hope Faraday, then two, was enjoying a cuddle from her grandma Mavis Whitaker when Mavis suddenly felt a lump on the youngster's tummy.
Hope, of Longridge, near Preston, was immediately taken to a doctor and then to the Royal Preston Hospital, where an ultrasound scan revealed the twoyear-old had a tumour on her right kidney.
She was diagnosed with a Wilms Tumour, a rare type of kidney cancer that affects children.
Hope was referred to Manchester Royal Children's Hospital in Pendlebury for tests and, in November 2005, after six weeks of intensive Chemotherapy, she had surgery to remove her right Kidney.
Hope, who celebrated her fourth birthday in June, is now fit and well, although still needs check-ups every four months.
Mum Debbie Faraday is now planning on rising to one of the UK's biggest sporting challenges to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
Debbie, who is married to Shaun and also has a three-yearold daughter, Verity, will take part in the BUPA Great North Run – the world's biggest half marathon – on September 30.
The 37-year-old, who is a teaching assistant at Barnacre Road Primary School in Longridge where Hope is a pupil, is urging anyone who already has a place in the run to join Cancer Research UK's running team.
Debbie said: "Hope is a remarkable little girl and has coped amazingly well with everything.
"One of the hardest things was Hope losing her hair following her Chemotherapy. It was awful to see our little girl go through all of that but Hope has just taken everything in her stride.
"My mum has a very special relationship with Hope. Like me, she also found writing therapeutic, and wrote several poems while Hope was having her treatment."
The poems have been published to raise money for Manchester Royal Children's Hospital."
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