Girl 5, battles rare cancer
A little girl with a terminal tumour who was told she had just ten months to live is on the road to an amazing recovery after battling the rare cancer.
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Jessica Vardy, five, was diagnosed with a Rhabdoid tumour under her left armpit which had spread through her arm on Christmas Eve.
Her parents had thought the mystery pain in her arm was a trapped nerve.
But five months later, doctors finally revealed Jessie had a cancerous tumour - and predicted she had just 10 months to live.
Only two children in the UK are diagnosed each year with the rare cancer, which usually spreads from the kidney or brain - prompting Jessie's grave prognosis.
But the brave little girl has continued to battle the cancer and after months of chemotherapy, she is defying the odds and going from strength to strength.
It has not spread to or from anywhere else in her body and the tumour has already reduced by 70 per cent.
And doctors will operate to remove as much of the tumour as possible next month - before ongoing chemotherapy is hoped to destroy it altogether.
