Woman, 24, dies of cancer just months after complaining of a sore on her tongue [Video]

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A young woman died at the age of 24 just months after she started to experience a pain in her throat and sore on her tongue. Beloved Ayla Eilery, from New York in the US, was diagnosed with skin cancer in 2021.

Despite having part of the tongue removed and reconstructed, as well as radio and chemotherapy it was discovered that the disease had spread to 13 other areas of her body.

She died peacefully in April 2022 after months of what her parents described as excruciating pain and suffering.

Now they are campaigning for other patients in similar situations to have access to Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), which allows terminally ill patients to self-administer medication that will end their own life and is not currently …