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Feb 2 • 11:37 UTC • 🇬🇧 UK • Mirror

I thought I was too young for cancer at 21 and blamed it on hay fever

A 21-year-old woman, Izzy Darnes, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia after misattributing her symptoms to hay fever.

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