Girl thought bump on her ribcage was just bruise from ice skating

Initially, Georgia Leslie thought the painful red lump on her ribcage was caused by a fall at the ice rink.

But a year later, after the lump had grown to the size of a orange, the 15-year-old was given the devastating news that she had bone cancer.

Georgia, now 18, said: "I was leaning on a table when I realised my right side felt a bit uncomfortable and when I looked to see why, I saw the tiniest little bump.

"It only felt sore and looked red, so I looked to see if anything had irritated it and showed it to my mum, who is a nurse.

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"We thought we’d keep an eye on it, but then it started to grow so fast it was five times bigger in just two months, so we went to see the doctor."

The GP suspected the lump had resulted from damaging the bone in the area and asked Georgia, who lives in Halifax, West Yorkshire, with her nurse mum, Katie, 36, football coach dad, Richard, 40, and sister Rebecca, 14 if she had done anything that could have injured one of her ribs.

She said: "The only thing I could think of was ice skating, because I was going every Saturday.

"I skated with my friends, but I’d also been on a rollercoaster, so wondered if that had caused some damage without me realising it."

Told by the doctor to come back if the pain worsened, two months later - a few weeks before her 16th birthday - she returned and was sent to the hospital in Huddersfield for tests and scans.

When her results looked fine, she settled into revising for her upcoming GCSEs and booked into an adventure programme as a treat when her exams finished.

But when she prepared to take part in the National Citizen Service (NCS) programme in the summer of 2019 she realised something was very wrong.

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