A Rowlands Gill family have thanked the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation after its children's support project helped Joseph Jarvie, 12, through a "totally unexpected" cancer diagnosis.
Last year, Joseph's parents Jo and Steve took him to the A&E at the RVI thinking he had a bad migraine, but medics there instead found he had a rare kind of brain cancer caused by a "germ cell tumour".
To mark International Childhood Cancer Day, mum Jo explained: "Joseph was diagnosed with cancer in January last year. It was totally unexpected. He had a terrible headache, sore neck and double vision and we were advised to got to A&E. Honestly, we just expected them to say it was a migraine.
