A young Scots boy has been left terrified he is dying and bleeding "for hours at a time" after a tumour started growing on his face. Five-year-old John Marshall, from Glasgow, first went to his GP in August after his mum Sheryl noticed the red lump near his temple, which was diagnosed as a granuloma, a type of non-cancerous tumour.
But three months on, John, who has autism, is still suffering as the lump has grown larger and gushes with blood up to six times a day. It has also become infected twice, with John given courses of antibiotics. He has had appointments with dermatologists and plastic surgeons at the Royal Children's Hospital in Glasgow, but has not yet had the tumour removed after a series of hold-ups and cancellations.
