Rebecca Moss, 27, was just 20 when she received an aggressive cancer diagnosis in 2016.

Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:22

By Press reporter

A young woman from near York has celebrated her first wedding anniversary after getting hitched while she battled cancer for a second time - aged just 26.

A month later, her boyfriend of five years, Kris Moss, 28, who works in agriculture, proposed and Rebecca swiftly underwent regular chemotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma.

Rebecca, from Wilderfoss, near York, was given the all-clear, but four years later she started to experience a "worrying" pain in her left side.

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