![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/family-thought-toddler-was-fussy/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_Clifton-family-thought-toddler-was-fussy-until-tumour-popped-out-of-abdomenAlmost-two-years-after-h.jpg&description=Neuroblastoma is a cancer of specialised nerve cells, called neural crest cells, which are involved in the development of the nervous system and other tissues. It mostly affects babies and children under the age of five, and around 100 children per year are diagnosed in the UK A Nottingham boy diagnosed with high-risk cancer after suffering intense stomach pain. Archer Crawford-Speakman, now four, was taken to A&E after a lump appeared on the side of his abdomen, which turned out to be a tumour. His mother, Jade, 29, first took Archer to the GP, December 2021, when a lump appeared on his abdomen. After Archer had been lying awake in pain through the night two weeks after his GP visit, she decided to take him to A&E. This is where doctors first suspected Archer could have a kidney issue. Following a series of tests, Jade and Archer's father Adam were told the news at the end of December that Archer, who was two years old at the time, had cancer. Doctors confirmed in early February that it was high-risk neuroblastoma- a cancer that starts in certain very early forms of nerve cells. Jade told the Nottingham Post: "I had a feeling before going in that was what it's going to be but obviously nothing prepares you for being told that your child's got cancer. Every parent's worst nightmare is hearing that your child has cancer, and nothing prepares you for hearing the words 'we estimate your son has two weeks to live. "There were little things that in hindsight are all symptoms but we just put them down to him being a toddler during the pandemic. So he was quite clingy with me, and he'd take one bite of something and then say that's enough. "We thought he was just being a fussy toddler, but it was actually just that the tumour had pushed everything over so far that he couldn't stomach much. They were things at first we just put down to him being a toddler, but it wasn't until the tumour popped out that we knew it was something more serious." Neuroblastoma is a cancer of spe){kind=link}
Neuroblastoma is a cancer of specialised nerve cells, called neural crest cells, which are involved in the development of the nervous system and other tissues. It mostly affects babies and children under the age of five, and around 100 children per year are diagnosed in the UK
A Nottingham boy diagnosed with high-risk cancer after suffering intense stomach pain.
Archer Crawford-Speakman, now four, was taken to A&E after a lump appeared on the side of his abdomen, which turned out to be a tumour. His mother, Jade, 29, first took Archer to the GP, December 2021, when a lump appeared on his abdomen.
After Archer had been lying awake in pain through the night two weeks after his GP visit, she decided to take him to A&E. This is where doctors first suspected Archer could have a kidney issue.
Following a series of tests, Jade and Archer’s father Adam were told the news at the end of December that Archer, who was two years old at the time, had cancer. Doctors confirmed in early February that it was high-risk neuroblastoma- a cancer that starts in certain very early forms of nerve cells.