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A woman who was given two weeks to live because of an aggressive cancer has made an incredible recovery - because her mum Googled treatments.

Angel Tocknell, 31, was diagnosed with cervical cancer and doctors couldn't operate because her tumours were so big.

The mum-of-two, from Sutton, Surrey, had grown tennis-ball sized tumours across her pelvis, ovaries and cervix.

She was given pain relief before doctors said they could do nothing more for her, the Star reports.

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But her mum Kathy was desperate to find alternative treatment and discovered brachytherapy, which blasts cancer cells with radioactive beams.

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The treatment was effective and Angel has now been given the all clear.

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(Image: Caters)

Angel told the newspaper: “The thought of dying was terrifying.

“My mum refused to give up on me even when there was no treatment available.

“It took just three months from being told I was terminal to being rid of the cancer.”

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Kathy, 67, said she couldn't 'just sit back and let [her] girl die'.

The pair have thanked the doctors who saved Angel's life.