Jennie has spent time researching the cancer storyline with Royal Manchester Children's Hospital oncology and haematology ward.
The twin girls - Faith and Nicola Holt - who play Hope know it's not real, says Jennie. "We don't want to put them in scenes that are too harrowing: that's where we'll never truly reflect what happens in real life and it wouldn't be very responsible of us to try to do that. So we're just showing a snapshot. But the girls are doing brilliantly and they know we're just pretending."
TV Times says that next week there's good news as Fiz and Tyrone are told there's a 80% chance that Hope will survive her childhood cancer. And the interview goes on to say that the writers have already decided that Hope will make a full recovery.
Jennie says: "The doctors that I spoke to said 'Please show that these things can have positive outcomes, because they can'. I think it'd be a bit too much for the audience if she didn't get better and it's right for this storyline."
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