Eight-year-old boy loses battle to rare and aggressive form of cancer hours after parents make desperate plea for donations
"Words can’t describe just how devastated and heartbroken we are, though we can take some consolation from the fact he is now free of pain," Luke Bell's parents said.
An eight-year-old boy who had previously fought off a rare and aggressive form of cancer only to see it return a few months later has passed away, his parents have confirmed. Mark and Becky Bell announced that their son, Luke Bell, succumbed to his neuroblastoma on Christmas Eve and that their world has now "changed forever."
According to the Daily Mail, Luke, of Darlington in County Durham, had been battling the cancer — which afflicts less than 100 children a year in the United Kingdom — for the last two years. Between his initial diagnosis and Christmas 2017, he underwent 11 rounds of chemotherapy, as well as surgery to remove a large tumor wrapped around an adrenal gland and a kidney.