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“Cancer has not stopped me” — Football teammates going orange in tribute to brave Katie’s inspirational fight

Brave young Fife footballer Katie Pake, who lost most of her leg to cancer, is tackling life head on.

The 10-year-old defender, who endured pioneering surgery to help her walk again, has enjoyed an emotional reunion with her Raith Rovers Ladies and Girls FC teammates.

Katie Pake

She also met Rovers stars Iain Davidson and Kyle Benedictus.

The Coaltown of Balgonie youngster has set her sights on a new goal – becoming match fit so she can get back on the pitch for good.

She has also been chosen to launch Stand Up To Cancer in Scotland, the joint Cancer Research UK and Channel 4 star-studded fundraiser.

“I love sport and was really sad when I couldn’t play football after I got cancer,” she said.


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“It feels so great to come back to see everyone and has made me even more determined to work hard so I can get back in to all the sports I love.

“I don’t mind when people look at my foot. I want to show that cancer has not stopped me.”

Katie and her teammates are going orange to stand up to cancer

In support, her playing pals are wearing bright orange to encourage Scots to fund-raise.

Girls team coach Christian Murray said: “We’re proud to swap our team colour and show our support for Stand Up To Cancer by dressing up in orange in honour of Katie.”

Parents Carol and Grant and brother Cameron were devastated when Katie, who had a painful knee, was diagnosed with bone cancer osteosarcoma in her right shin, in June 2017.

Carol said they were petrified but Katie was pragmatic and did not want to be told anything but the truth.

Medics were initially hopeful they could save her leg but tests revealed the cancer had spread to her spine and hips. That was gone by Christmas and in February, two days before her 10th birthday, she became the first patient at Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh to have an eight-hour rotationplasty operation.

Doctors, who removed the middle section of Katie’s right leg, reattached her foot and ankle to her thigh back to front to create a new knee joint.

This made it easier for Katie to wear a prosthetic limb.

Before the eight-hour operation, she asked for “please recycle” to be written on the section of leg being removed so the tissue was donated to medical research.

The message Katie left for medics

Katie was fitted with her first prosthetic leg last month and is having regular physiotherapy.

Proud Carol said: “Katie wants to be a champion for all children affected by cancer.”

She wants to swim, play football, skydive, be a Paralympian and even become a surgeon.

Since it was launched in the UK in 2012, Stand Up To Cancer has raised more than £38 million.

Thanking the family and club, Lisa Adams, Cancer Research UK’s spokeswoman in Scotland, said he hoped Scots would take part.

To get involved visit standuptocancer.org.uk