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Boy, 7, dies of leukaemia two weeks before he was due to get stem cells from twin

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A little boy battling leukaemia lost his fight for survival weeks before he was to get potentially life saving stem cells donated by his twin brother.

Reuben Whittle, seven, was about two weeks away from having the stem cells put in when he died, his mum said. His mother Jayne Whittle said it's tragically left identical sibling Rocco, who donated his cells, with a lot of questions. "As a family we are devastated and there will always be a piece missing forever from our family unit," she said.

Reuben had already undergone a bone marrow transplant but he relapsed and he was two weeks away from receiving lymphocytes given by Rocco.

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