A family had their world turned upside down when their toddler's "viral infection" turned out to be a kidney cancer. Two-year-old Jamie Clarke was rushed to Alder Hey Children's Hospital by worried mum Ashley Hughes, 21, after she noticed a lump on the side of his stomach, the Liverpool Echo reports.Doctor's originally though the youngster was suffering from a viral infection, as his glands were also swollen, however concerned dad Jamie, 24, took him back to hospital the next day.
Nan Angela Daniels, 31, from Kensington, explained: "The next day his dad noticed this lump again and he wasn't happy so he took him back to Alder Hey. "They said it was constipation and again it could be his glands.
Ashley brought Jamie to my house on Sunday and he didn't look himself."He was very grey and white, he wasn't sitting properly in his pram and he couldn't really walk."Angela said Jamie's grandad Andrew was also concerned after seeing the lump and she took him back to Alder Hey.After undergoing blood tests, the family was told Jamie had anaemia and he was kept in hospital overnight.The results of further tests revealed the two-year-old had a tumour that was 11cm by 8cm in size and he also had polycystic cysts on his kidneys.Angela said: "They didn't know if it was benign or cancerous at this point."Due to the amount of cysts on his kidneys, Angela said doctors were concerned that a biopsy could cause them to burst.Angela said: "On January 7 he underwent an eight hour operation to remove the tumour and kidney."Doctors told Jamie's family the devastating news he had a Wilms tumour - a type of kidney cancer that primarily affects children.Angela said: "It was horrible.
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