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This is the moment a brave four-year-old girl rang the cancer-free bell after ending three years of treatment.

A video showed Phoebe Ashfield receiving a round of applause and cheers from nurses.

She was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at seven months old in 2019 and relapsed three times during her treatment.

Her mother Emma Wyke, 30, from Dudley, West Midlands, recorded Phoebe ringing the bell following her ordeal.

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Mother Emma Wyke and Phoebe (centre) alongside family members. (Caters)

Wyke said: "At one stage of her treatment I was told that she isn't going to pull through and to prepare myself for the worst.

"It's devastating and heartbreaking to watch my baby girl go through all this.

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"When Phoebe was first diagnosed, I thought they had the wrong child, and it simply cannot be my daughter, as all she had was a cold and chest infection and it can't be cancer.

"When she finally rang the bell it's a mixture of emotions you want to cry happy tears, but you still have that worry of wondering if it's going to come back. You don't truly know how to feel."

Phoebe as a baby during her treatment. (Caters)

Phoebe started her treatment with chemotherapy but it wasn't strong enough to keep the cancer away, Wyke said.

She relapsed in June 2019 and had to go for a Car-T therapy, which involved taking her stem cells and modifying them to fight the cancer.

She relapsed again in September of that year.

Her mother said further treatment was successful until January 2020 when she relapsed for the third time and needed a stem cell transplant, and at this moment "time was against us".

Wyke added: "If there is one thing to come of this is that to register to become a stem cell donor through (non-profit) DKMS and (charity) Anthony Nolan because without these selfless people, adults and children, my daughter wouldn't be here to tell this tale.

If you can please register you could save someone's life."

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