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Aaliyah Rugg

Heartbreak as 'real-life superhero' dies, aged 4, after cancer battle

Tributes have poured in for a "real-life superhero" after his tragic death, aged just four-years-old.

Back in 2020, young Lee-Joshua Hodgson was taken to his GP with 'strange symptoms' which included a cough and swelling in the groin area. But after a trip to the hospital, Lee was sent home with antibiotics, with the diagnosis that it was a viral infection.

However, after finding a lump on his knee and being told it may be a cyst, the family found themselves in hospital on Christmas Day where scans showed he had stage four metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma alveolar. The disease is an extremely rare and aggressive cancer that forms in soft tissue.

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