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Save the day?

She has now returned to school just 12 weeks after her operation.

Lydia was diagnosed with pancreatoblastoma in September 2011.

It is a cancer of the pancreas which affects just one child every two years in the UK.

In Lydia’s case the cancer had spread, leaving her with tumours in her lymph nodes and liver.

She underwent chemotherapy at hospitals in South Yorkshire which shrank the tumours but did not destroy them.

Her mother Kate Warner said she thought her daughter would be “gone in months” following the failure of the chemotherapy.

The family took her on a final holiday to Florida and even planned her funeral.

She was saved when a team of specialist surgeons at Birmingham Children's Hospital removed her liver and replaced it with a portion of her mother’s in an operation in April.

Her mother said she could not believe how quickly her daughter had recovered.

“It’s just not real,” she said.

“You look at her now and we’ve got hope again. We’ve got a chance of life. We’ve got an opportunity we were told we wouldn't have at all.

“So it’s down to the surgeons in Birmingham, they really saved the day.”

- North Yorkshire girl saved by transplant from mum, BBC.co.uk, July 8, 2013.

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