Seven-year-old who complained of tummy ache given 'five per cent chance of survival'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA boy whose stomach pains led to a rare cancer diagnosis has been given just a five per cent chance of survival by doctors – leaving his family “heartbroken”.
Tyler Lynch was five-years-old when he began complaining of pain in his stomach in May 2020. Months later, when he woke with a limp and a sore leg, his parents Daniel and Maria decided to take him to Manchester Children’s Hospital.
Doctors told the family that Tyler was suffering from irritable hip, which is fairly common in children. But the following day, when Tyler’s eye began to swell, his parents knew it was something more serious. “He woke up and it looked like his left eye started to close,” Daniel, 34, told the Manchester Evening News. “Doctors looked at him again and got him to walk.
They asked how long he had been walking like that. READ MORE: Woman who felt 'niggling pain' in her leg on dog walk given 'incurable' diagnosis “A blood test found inflammation and then they did an MRI scan and we were told he had a tumour in his stomach and that it was cancer – it only got worse from there.” Tyler, from Sale, was tragically diagnosed with Stage 4 Neuroblastoma, a cancer that is almost always found in children.
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