I had cancer as a child - now I help families facing their last Christmas together

I had cancer as a child - now I help families facing their last Christmas together

A Christmas visit to the cinema is a memorable treat for many children. For Sophie Hartley, a festive screening of The Polar Express will never be forgotten. Aged just eight in 2004, she sobbed throughout the film before she had to be carried out in agony from leg pain and taken to a walk-in health clinic in Slough. But it wasn’t until April the following year, after months of excruciating pain, that she was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a rare …