A teenager was diagnosed with cancer after being repeatedly rushed to hospital after eating spicy food.
A simple takeaway would leave 18-year-old Brooke Evans in agony with crippling stomach cramps.
Doctors were mystified as the pain would have often vanished after Brooke had been given medication, reports the Birmingham Mail.
But eventually they diagnosed leukaemia, and the teenager, from Redditch, is now battling back to health after taking part in a new drug trial .
She said: "I started waking up in the middle of the night and had really bad stomach cramps all across my right side.
"It only ever happened after I ate spicy food. If I had something like a Chinese takeaway I would end up in A&E.
"The pain was so bad but often, by the time a doctor got round to seeing me, it had gone away as I was given strong painkillers.
After a number of emergency trips to hospital, and seeing her GP, she was given tests and diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
She took part in the drug trial and after chemotherapy, and eight months of intense treatment, drugs and steroids, she is now in remission.
The A-level student hopes to sit her exams next year, and then go to university to study nursing.
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