WHEN Harrison Thompson began suffering aches and pains last December, he initially put it down to a rugby injury.

But after bungling doctors dismissed his symptoms as "growing pains", it was later discovered the 13-year-old actually had an aggressive cancer in six parts of his body - and now, NHS treatment is no longer able to help him.

Sports-mad teenager Harrison had been hurt by a tackle during PE at school towards the end of last year, and assumed his aches and pains were related to that.

But when the pain got worse his mum Lindzey, 34, and dad Mitchell, 36, took him to the GP where they were told it was probably a muscular issue.

He was later admitted to A&E at at Leicester Royal Infirmary where doctors believed the problem could be related to growing pains.

Harrison's pain conti

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