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Watch: Meet the amputee battling breast cancer who's swimming the English Channel

August 9, 2018

An women who had her right leg amputated after a bone cancer mis-diagnosis will swim the English Channel as part of a relay team.

English woman Vicki Gilbert's has been walking on one leg for more than 20 years after the medical error.

She received another diagnosis of advanced breast cancer just two weeks ago.

As the BBC's Fiona Lamdin explains in the above video Ms Gilbert is not letting her illness stop her.

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