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Page last updated at 16:28 GMT, Saturday, 20 June 2009 17:28 UK
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Mercy mission cancer woman dies

Teresa Wasik
Cancer sufferer Ms Wasik died in Poland on Saturday

A Polish woman suffering from terminal cancer who was flown back to the Eastern European country to see her son has died, it has been revealed.

Theresa Wasik, 34, had been working in Wiltshire and received treatment for cervical cancer at the Royal United Hospital in Bath.

Her flight from Bristol on Thursday was paid for by people in the West.

Jay Jay Martin from the Central and East European Information Service in Bristol said she died on Saturday.



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