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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Liberty Sheldon

Boy's large vein turns out to be rare cancer which needs over 2,200 medical procedures

A boy who was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer at the age of three has endured 2,244 medical procedures in three years.

Little Seb, of Tring, Hertfordshire, has undergone intensive chemotherapy which began on his fourth birthday after being rushed to hospital when he went off his food and began shedding weight.

He got repeat infections, which doctors initially put down to coming into contact with new children at nursery, but after a bold vein appeared running from his neck to his groin mum Claire Boulter took him to A&E.

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