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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Sophie Halle-Richards

Boy, 4, gets tragic diagnosis on Christmas Day after parents rush him to hospital

The family of a four-year-old boy has been left heartbroken after his sore neck turned out to be a rare and aggressive form of cancer.

Little Jaxon Garvey, from Leigh, was diagnosed with multiple brain tumours on Christmas Day, after being admitted to Manchester Children's Hospital two days earlier.

The only symptom noticed by his parents, Melissa Roberts and Callam Garvey, was that he had complained of a sore neck three weeks before.

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