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The cancer had altered the bone structure around Harri's eye and required several types of treatment.
(Caters news agency)
A 4-year-old mother who thought her son's eye was a cold or a case of conjunctivitis was speaking while the boy's symptoms were actually signs of a rare cancer.
"It's so rare and unexpected that it's hard to look," said Harri Cooke's mother Carly Cooke at the Caters news agency.
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Last September, when the boy's face in Gloucestershire began to swell, his mother took him for further testing. In January, he was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer or soft tissue that can occur in the bones of the legs, arms, feet, hands, chest, pelvis, spine, skull or other parts of the body. According to the National Cancer Institute, it is more common in teenagers and young adults and can cause pain or swelling, bumps, fever or fractures.
"It did not seem to bother him, he was so happy all the time," the mother told Caters. "But when his face started to swell, our general practitioner referred us to an ophthalmologist. When we arrived, six doctors arrived and they all seemed very worried. "
Cooke said the cancer had altered the bone structure around his son's eye and, six days after his diagnosis, he had begun his treatment, which included trips to the United States. Her family and friends helped raise funds for her blood transfusions, chemotherapy and proton beam therapy.
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The boy's cancer is now in remission, but Cooke and her husband, James, are worried about the future damage the treatment may have caused.
"The drugs are so much harder for kids," she told Caters. "Harri's treatment means that he could have growth problems, tooth problems and that he is more likely to have cancer later in life."
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