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Paula Radcliffe opens up about 'horrible' experience of daughter's cancer treatment


She described it as the 'hardest thing a parent can go through'

Marathon legend Paula Radcliffe has opened up about the "horrible" experience of watching her daughter Isla undergo chemotherapy, calling it "the hardest thing a parent can go through". The world-record holder has another child, a son named Raphael, with her husband Gary Lough, and she spoke candidly about how Isla's health battle affected the entire family. In a candid revelation on The Move Against Cancer Podcast in 2021, Radcliffe discussed her daughter Isla's health struggles, revealing that she had gone through three rounds of chemotherapy, which was "really hard" on the family.

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