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Liverpool Echo
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Christopher Megrath & Peter Staunton & Stephen Killen

Gary Lineker issues heartbreaking admission after son George's cancer battle

Sports pundit Gary Lineker remains close to the hospital his son George battled leukaemia in as a newborn.

George spent the first several months of his life battling the cancer with his father by his side. No more than two months after he was born he spent the following seven in Great Ormond Street Hospital after being diagnosed with leukaemia.

The sports pundit admitted he still feels indebted to the charities that helped his family at the time which is why he remains doing everything he can to give back. 30 years on, George remains healthy as ever but now the Linekers are back at the hospital whose “FINISH-IT!” campaign seeks to raise £10 million for a new National Children’s Blood Cancer Trials Network.

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