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Sarah Barrett

Heartbreak as 'loving' schoolboy, 14, given just days to live by doctors after rare cancer diagnosis

A young boy battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer for more than two years has been told he has only days to live by doctors.

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 in November 2020.

The teen, who is originally from Longbenton, Newcastle but moved to Liverpool with his mum Kelly Ann Moor just weeks before his diagnosis, has undergone three rounds of chemotherapy and surgery to remove a tumour in a bid to kill off the cancerous cells affecting his blood.

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