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Sarah Ward & Murray Grayston & Hannah Kane

Boy, 4, gets devastating rare cancer after his chickenpox symptoms fail to go away

A four-year-old boy was diagnosed with a rare cancer after chickenpox symptoms failed to clear up.

Calum Rae had chickenpox in January and when symptoms persisted his GP said it was a post-viral infection linked to shingles.

But the symptoms got worse, and the family, from Troon, South Ayrshire, were devastated to be told it was Stage M high-risk Neuroblastoma, an aggressive cancer with a high cancer of recurring.

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