A pediatric nurse has shared her story of beating the odds two decades after she was diagnosed with a rare cancer.

Just months after moving down from Bexley to Paddock Wood, six-year-old Demie Lawson Wood and her family received the news that she had neuroblastoma.

It’s a rare and aggressive childhood cancer that begins in the abdomen and attacks the nervous system.

In 2004, Demie and her family were told she had a 20% chance of survival, as it was already at stage four, having spread to her lymph nodes.

She said: “I remember the moment it happened. I was kneeling over and in a lot of belly pain and then being taken to the hospital.

“It was a really bad time as well. My dad had built our house for us over the year, and we'd just moved in over a couple of days before Christmas at this

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