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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Sophie Collins

Irish family's 'worst fears confirmed' as boy's neck pain turns out to be cancer

An Irish mum and dad have set up a GoFundMe page to raise enough money for their son to be accepted on a clinical trial at the world-renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York.

Joseph, 9, was diagnosed with cancer back in September 2021 - at the age of 7 - and has since been through an incredibly rough run of treatments which will hopefully put him in remission very soon.

He has a short window between the end of his treatment and when he can receive a ‘bivalent vaccine,’ which works by targeting two proteins found on neuroblastoma cells: GD2L and GD3L - to prevent his cancer from returning.

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