26 August 2017 - After all she has been through, it was about time something went right for Andreanna Candi, an office worker locked in the fight of her life with cancer. 

At first, they said she had a uterine fibroid that was best left alone. When it grew to the size of a grapefruit, the surprised surgeon asked why she had taken so long to have it taken out.

Only then did she receive the bad news: the supposedly benign growth was an inflammatory myo­fibroblastic tumour — a rare, aggressive and hard-to-detect cancer. Worse, malignant spores had been inadvertently seeded through her belly during surgery. Candi endured operation after operation to control the eruption of cancerous tumours, her prognosis worsening at every turn.

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