A mum-of-two has revealed how doctors told her she had just 24 hours to live as a result of an aggressive cancer that was "crushing" her insides.

Rafaela Ribeiro's ordeal began when she started to rapidly lose weight; she shed nearly three stone in a matter of weeks earlier this year, but she wasn't overly concerned.

"I thought everything was fine, that I was just losing weight very quickly," said the 24-year-old, who has almost 600,000 Instagram followers. "I never imagined it would be anything more serious."

But Rafaela - a real estate agent from São Paulo, Brazil - was soon diagnosed with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a rare and aggressive cancer of the lymphatic system.

"It started with a constant dry cough and then came the swelling in my neck and armpits," she said. "A few days

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