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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Abigail Nicholson

Landmarks light up green in memory of beautiful Lee

A number of Liverpool landmarks turned green to remember Kirkby's own superhero.

Lee-Joshua Hodgson lost his battle with a rare form of cancer aged four on June 26. Back in 2020, Lee's parents were told his cough was a viral infection, but it did not get any better.

After finding a lump on his knee and told it could 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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