Mum and thirteen-year-old daughter Ruby ‘closer than ever’ after beating rare cancer on the SAME day

A MUM and her daughter both beat cancer on the same day.

Ruby Connar, 13, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at the age of eight.

While she was undergoing ­aggressive chemotherapy her mum Josie, 48, discovered a cancerous lump on her breast.

At times the pair would be ­having chemo at different ends of the same hospital.

And on the day that Ruby had her last round of chemotherapy, Josie had a double mastectomy.

Ruby was given the all-clear in November. And Josie is in ­remission, with no signs of the cancer returning.

Josie, a police officer from Exeter, said: "On 15 January 2014 I had my double mastectomy and Ruby had her last day of any chemo.

"We both had our final treatment on the same day - which is a bizarre coincidence.

"We both feel like we have beaten cancer - and we have done it together.

Ruby was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2011.

Doctors said the condition would have been terminal had it remained undiagnosed for many more weeks.