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Mark Smith & Alex Whilding & Peter Diamond

Boy, 6, given 5 per cent chance of surviving brain cancer taking life day-by-day after operation

A six-year-old boy who started to become unwell at the start of the first coronavirus lockdown is taking life day-by-day after having a brain tumour removed in a 10-hour operation.

Aaron Wharton went through an initial period of vomiting regularly, along with struggling with his balance, before his parents took him to hospital in March 2020.

Doctors found a significant growth on the four-year-old child's head following an MRI scan, and it was then that he was diagnosed with a grade three brain tumour.

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