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Townsville boy granted ticket home for Christmas after year of leukaemia treatment in Brisbane

A little boy has finally made it home to North Queensland for Christmas after a hellish year undergoing cancer treatment more than 1,300 kilometres away.

Christmas was the last thing on the Tauroa-Rauhihi family's mind 12 months ago when their six-year-old son Haven was diagnosed with b-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

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