Coronation Street has been accused of "trivialising" cancer with a "soft" storyline involving a child.
In the ITV soap, Fiz (Jennie McAlpine) and Tyrone's (Alan Halsall) 5-year-old daughter Hope has been diagnosed with neuroblastomaneuroblastoma, a form of the disease which affects 100 children every year and has a 67% survival rate.
Last Friday, the parents were told Hope's cancer had been cured and she was entering remission after just a couple of months of treatment.
Fiz and Tyrone hear the news about Hope's operation
© ITV
However, now real-life parents have come forward in anger at the apparent trivialising of the condition.
Victoria Young and husband Rob, whose 3 year-old daughter Ruby has the same condition, have posted on their Facebook page fundraising for her, saying: "The whole thing has been a farce.
"Not only am I disappointed in this storyline I am disgusted and offended they have made it look like a walk in the park."
But a Coronation Street spokesman defended the soap, stating: "We have not at any stage said Hope is cured at all. This is an ongoing story which has been researched thoroughly."
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