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Four-year-old identical twins Megan and Gracie Garwood who are both fighting cancer, High Rougham, Suffolk, Britain - 21 Jan 2010
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Four-year-old identical twins Megan and Gracie Garwood who are both fighting cancer, High Rougham, Suffolk, Britain - 21 Jan 2010
FOUR-YEAR-OLD TWIN SISTERS BATTLE CANCER TOGETHER
A family have spoken of their heartache after their four-year-old, identical twin daughters were diagnosed with cancer within days of each other.
Emma Garwood has described the "living nightmare" of discovering that both her daughters Megan and Gracie have leukaemia.
The brave twins were diagnosed within a week of each other and have been receiving treatment for the past five months.
It was younger twin Megan who was diagnosed first, with Gracie, who is older by two minutes, following shortly afterwards.
It was last August when Megan first became unwell and her GP immediately referred her to hospital.
Here she was diagnosed with Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia before being rushed to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge; she began chemotherapy that very night.
Emma said: "It all seems like a dream sequence. I still just assumed she had a bug. You never think anything this bad could happen to you.
"But suddenly a doctor says your daughter has cancer and moments later we are being rushed to Addenbrooke's in an ambulance with all the blue lights flashing. And then at midnight you watch your daughter begin an intense course of chemotherapy".
The only comfort for Emma, 38, and her husband Mark, 35, who also have a younger daughter, was the reassurance that the chances of Gracie having the same disease were remote.
Tragically however, just days later she fell unwell and her worried parents brought her to Addenbroke's to be checked over.
Mrs Garwood said: "She thought she was only there to visit her sister, but they took one look at her and before we knew it she was moved into the bed next to Megan for treatment.
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