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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matt Mathers

‘Why me?’: Boy, 11, starts fifth course of chemo in week he begins secondary school

SWNS

A devastated boy asked his mother “why me” as he started cancer treatment for the fifth time - in the same week that he began high school.

Charlie Cox, 11, was diagnosed with grade 2 oligoastrocytoma aged just eight months old, undergoing a variety of treatments, including two brain surgeries and repeated chemotherapy.

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