On the eve of her 21st birthday, Jessica Olson defied doctors’ orders and terrible odds in a desperate bid to beat her third bout of cancer.

In what is an unprecedented endorsement for a controversial drug, the young journalism student turned to cannabis oil when the crippling tumour returned to her neck in 2016.

Doctors told Jess she would require a debilitating surgery to remove the lump after successfully, albeit temporarily, overcoming stage II Nodular Sclerosing Hodgkin’s Lymphoma twice before.

Without the surgery she was given just months to live, with the surgery she was given a ten per cent chance of survival accompanied by a severely reduced standard of life.

View photos Jessica, who loves physical culture, underwent chemotherapy at the age of 15. Photo: GoFundMe More

View photos With her boyfriend by her side, Jess has successfully fought off different types of cancer again and again. Source: Wordpress More

View photos The aspiring journalist said she didn't want to be bed ridden in her final months if she was to pass away. Source: Facebook More

“I decided I didn’t want to have it... living like that, it wasn’t for me,” Jess told 7 News Online.

“I didn’t want to be sitting at home being high or sick, I said I’d rather go out fighting and enjoy my time.”

On more than one occasion, doctors reminded the Menai local just how slim her chances were without the extreme operation.

“My doctor told me to go home, write a bucket list and plan how I wanted to be remembered because I had months to live at best,” the talented dancer added.

“Without the surgery, they gave me a couple of months, they said the tumor would grow out of my neck and into my mouth, basically I would die from suffocation.

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