A "kind and brave" seven-year-old boy has died after battling a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Fletcher Discombe was affectionately known as Tigger because he was always bouncing around before he was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma in May 2022.
Fletcher, from Devon, had developed a lump in his neck just before his family were due to move abroad. Doctors initially thought it could be a swollen lymph node, but when he started to lose his vision, further tests revealed he had a large tumour behind his nose, DevonLive reports.
The brave little boy was rushed to Bristol Royal Hospital for Children where he underwent a gruelling but successful operation lasting 15 hours to save his eyesight. The rare type of cancer Fletcher had had formed in his skeletal muscle tissue and had spread to his bone marrow and lungs.
