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Paige Oldfield & Ruth Suter

Boy who suffered chronic tummy pains given '5 per cent chance of survival'

A boy's stomach pains which led to cancer have left him with just a five per cent chance of survival - leaving his family devastated.

Tyler Lynch was five-years-old when he began complaining of pain in his tummy in May 2020. When he woke up with a limp and sore leg months later, mum and dad Danie and Maria rushed the tot to hospital.

Medics told his parents that Tyler was suffering from irritable hip, which is fairly common in children. But the following day, when Tyler’s eye began to swell, his parents knew it was something more serious.

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