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Jonathan Geddes & Craig Williams

Lanarkshire toddler facing gruelling daily chemotherapy to treat rare tumour

A Lanarkshire family are hosting a fun day this summer to raise funds for the Glasgow hospital where their toddler is being treated for a rare tumour.

Luca Brannan currently requires chemotherapy twice a day after doctors found he had an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) that needed treatment when he was just four months old.

Luca, now 17 months, faces at least another 12 months of treatment, which is gruelling for both the tot and his family - dad Kieran, mum Shannan and his older brother Leo, who is four.

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