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Chrissy Walters' daughter is part of a generation Australia hopes will grow up without the burden of cervical cancer
Six months after finally giving birth to her first child, following a years-long struggle to conceive, Chrissy Walters was told her daughter would likely grow up without her.
Walters had suffered a major bleed while at home in Toowoomba - a small city two hours inland of Brisbane - and several hospital visits, doctor appointments and biopsies later, the then 39-year-old was handed an advanced cervical cancer diagnosis.
"I just said to [my husband] Neil… there has been a huge mistake," Walters recalls.
She's now spent more than a decade undergoing treatments - both debilitating and incredibly invasive - but the cancer has spread to other parts of her body.…