A TEENAGER is facing her second cancer battle as a tumour returned 11 years after being given the all-clear.

Millie O’Shea is back under treatment and could be given a trial drug.

The 15-year-old, from Shawforth, was just three in 2006 when she was found to have Wilms’ tumour growing inside her kidney, lungs and lymph nodes.

She had 34 weeks of gruelling chemotherapy and radiotherapy and was finally given the all-clear in 2008.

Now a lump in her lungs has proved to be the return of Wilms’ tumour, probably caused by a ‘rogue cell’ the previous treatment did not destroy.

The new diagnosis has devastated her parents Susan and Garry and sisters Carrie and Laura.

Millie said: “I have no memory of when I was younger. When they told me I had cancer again at first I was just numb, then everyone started crying and I did too.

“I have noticed that my hair is now falling out and I have been feeling rubbish but I just have to get on with it. I am determined to beat it.”

Mum Susan said: “She has had six days of intensive chemotherapy and then will have a week and four days off and then it will all start again.

“Millie keeps everyone going. I have not been well myself but she pushes me to keep me going.

“She is under the same consultant Professor Bernadette Brennan and some of the staff on Ward 84 also remember Millie from the first time.”

Once she has had two cycles of chemotherapy at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, a further check will be made on the tumour. If it has shrunk it will be removed, if it has gone she will be given radiotherapy but if it is unchanged Millie will be given a trial drug.

Her shocked friends at Whitworth Community High School organised a fundraiser which an exhausted Millie managed to attend.

It raised £1,406.97 to help the family with transport costs.

Schoolfriend Sky Aldcroft, 15, said: “The girls as a group are all really close to Millie and when we found out we were devastated.”

Another friend Lily May-Maddock, 16, said: “Millie is such a larger than life character, we all miss her. Millie is a fighter and she will fight this again.

“She is not taking this negatively and is not giving in to it. She is being strong for us.”

The GCSE student is keeping her friends informed of her progress and various local fundraising efforts through her Facebook page ‘Millie O’Shea’s Journey’.

Every year 80 to 85 children are diagnosed with a Wilms’ tumour, 85 per cent are successfully treated but a small number relapse.