WHEN Tommy Verbickas "kept being sick" doctors repeatedly turned him away saying it was just "viral".

It wasn't until an alarming sign appeared in his nappy one day that Tommy underwent an urgent scan and his cancer was revealed.

Tommy, from Sale, Greater Manchester, was just two years old when he was diagnosed with Wilms' tumour, a type of kidney cancer , in February 2022.

He underwent chemotherapy, surgery and countless hospital visits, and rang the end-of-treatment bell in 2022, with his parents, Rebecca and Darius, believing “that chapter was closed”.

However, Tommy has since relapsed twice and is now facing cancer for a third time – and Rebecca, 37, who works in customer service, and Darius, 46, an HGV driver, have been told his “chance of cure is now low”.

In the months prior

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