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Tim Hanlon

Boy, 8, dies after 'stomach bug' turns out to be aggressive brain tumour

An eight-year-old boy who was diagnosed by doctors as having a stomach bug, died after it was later found he had an aggressive brain tumour, it is claimed.

Isaiah Jarrett, from Castle Vale, Birmingham, died just eight months after being diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumour, following bouts of extreme vomiting.

It is claimed doctors initially thought Isaiah's illness could've been gastroenteritis, and when he later began to vomit blood, suffer with a stiff neck and had headaches, they were put down to long episodes of sickness.

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