Teenager who battled rare cancer for 12 years loses fight for life

A teenage girl who captured the hearts of the nation for the past 12 years as she bravely battled a rare cancer lost her fight for life this morning.

A teenage girl who battled a rare cancer for 12 years lost her fight for life this morning.

Robyn Smyth, 15, from Whitehall in Dublin, had been fighting the aggressive cancer, neuroblastoma, since the age of three.