After surviving a rare and deadly childhood cancer, a Bury schoolgirl is celebrating a very different kind of victory – becoming a world champion on the international martial arts stage.
She battled a deadly illness as a baby – and won. Now a little girl with a big heart is celebrating another victory – but this time in an altogether different sort of fight.
Sorrelle Turnbull, from Walshaw in Bury, was 10 months-old when she was diagnosed with rare Infant Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.
She had chemotherapy and a life-saving bone marrow transplant at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital in a series of treatment programmes lasting more than three years. The youngster also developed a virus in March, 2016, and underwent pioneering antibiotic therapy.
But in the April of that year, the family were given the news they’d been desperate to hear – the transplant had been a success and Sorrelle was cancer free.
Now aged 11, Sorrelle, a pupil at Old Hall Primary School in Bury, is happy, healthy and looking forward to Christmas – as a world champion.
