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HER ‘SPIDER BITE’ was cancer

Vanessa Ramswarup, 45, Yeppoon, Qld

Is that a spider bite?’ I asked my daughter Priya, then six.

A hard lump the size of a golf ball had formed on her right hand overnight.

‘Don’t worry Mummy, it doesn’t hurt,’ she said,

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