Callum had a lump on his neck but thought nothing of it - at just 13 he was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer
manchestereveningnews.co.ukSitting in a hospital room, Callum Shallcross says he ‘dissociated from reality’. He’d just been told that the small lump on his neck that he’d asked his mates about five weeks earlier was stage four cancer.
It was a hammer-blow to the then-13-year-old and his mum. “I was given the news twice. When I was told by an A&E consultant I zoned out and dissociated from reality,” Callum recalled. “I went into my own mind and was staring blankly. “My mum broke down.
I was told again by my oncologist, and that time I broke down.” READ MORE: Anger after Manchester student club hired dwarf actor to dress as ‘leprechaun’ for St Patrick’s Day party Now aged 16, Callum, from Manchester, is set to take the stage at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Wednesday (March 22).
He’s endured isolation, aggressive chemotherapy, and depression — but his performance will be a celebration of his talent, as well as a warning to others about the dangers of the disease. “No-one teaches you the symptoms of cancer as a young person or what signs to look out for,” he went on. “I thought nothing of it until it grew so big and by then it was stage four.
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