A schoolboy was diagnosed with cancer just two weeks after his identical twin's funeral - who had died from cancer. Doctors initially thought Jack Parton, now 15, had PTSD following the death of his brother Ben from a brain tumour in December 2019.
But it turned out he had the blood cancer leukemia - a further blow to the already suffering family. Mum Julie Parton, 54, said: "To be told my surviving son had leukaemia was devastating. Although I have to hold out hope that leukaemia is curable whereas Ben never had that chance."
Ben passed away ten days before Christmas three years ago despite two surgeries, 30 sessions of radiotherapy and two cycles of chemotherapy. He had been diagnosed with a glioblastoma eight months earlier after bouts of vomiting and painful headaches.
