Mum thought girl, 5, had growing pains before devastating diagnosis View 3 Images

A five-year-old girl's symptoms were mistaken for growing pains and measles before she vomited blood and was given a rare cancer diagnosis. Mum-of-three Madeleine Shipp, 28, has said what has happened to daughter Aubrey still does not feel real.

The stay-at-home mum, who lives in Essex with her 31-year-old partner James, said Aubrey, now six, started complaining of leg pain in January. It was thought to be growing pains or a pulled muscle from doing the splits at school, but when she later woke up covered in "spots" and vomited blood, Aubrey was rushed to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford.

The five-year-old was then transferred to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), where it was confirmed in Ap

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