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Wesley Holmes & Kali Lindsay

Heartbreak as 'loving' Longbenton schoolboy, 14, with rare cancer has days left to live

A young boy battling a rare and aggressive cancer has been told by doctors nothing more can be done to save him.

Dylan Reid, 14, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia - a type of blood cancer that starts from white blood cells in the bone marrow - after coming out in a dark purple rash weeks in November 2020.

The teen, who is originally from Longbenton, had surgery to remove a tumour and underwent three intense rounds of chemotherapy to kill the cancerous cells affecting his blood.

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