Strangely, her twin sister, Megan, also suffered from similar symptoms - including back pain in the same location as Sophie's tumour - despite not having the disease herself.
A Scots teen with cancer whose healthy twin experienced 'phantom' symptoms is raising £350k for life-saving treatment abroad.
Since then, Sophie has been given the all-clear three times but the cancer has always returned. Now the NHS has said they can't offer any more treatments and there are no clinical trials she can currently access. Sophie has previously been to Germany for the treatment once but needs to make multiple trips for it to be effective.
"The treatment in Germany costs £4k per tumour so for both tumours plus expenses that's £10k per month - then her high-dose vitamin C is £2k, so we're looking at £13k per month just on treatments. However a clinic in Germany has offered a groundbreaking new treatment which applies chemotherapy directly to the tumour via blood vessels.
"Once we find out which immunotherapies her tumour is sensitive to, we can go to California for immunotherapy to help her body recognise the tumours.
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