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    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 ​neuroblastoma​neuroblastoma​, 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
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    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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