Girl, 17, died after 'bad back' turned out to be rare cancer

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What the family thought would be a slipped disc was diagnosed as cancer and Elisha died six-and-a-half months later.

When Elisha Furneaux complained of having back problems, her family thought it was because she had a new job as a trainee nursery nurse.

But when it didn’t get any better they took Elisha to the doctor, who, they said, prescribed painkillers. ‘You just don’t expect cancer when your child has been fit and healthy and a normal 17-year-old. Apart from a bit of a bad back that we put down to where she was working, Elisha had no other symptoms.‘The initial word ‘cancer’ devastated our lives. You come out of it a completely different person and you never get back to the person you were.

‘One day everything was fine, everything was great, then the next we came home and it had all changed and there had been no warning.’

 

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