Lets help support Jake and his parents

My Son’s friend Jake is only 15 years old and has been battling cancer since 2022.

Jake will finish this chemo in June and go for surgery in July where Jake has requested an amputation of his right leg and pelvis, which, as the surgeon confirmed, will give him more quality of life and less chance of the cancer returning

Jake is an absolute incredible inspiration and has endured so much over the last few years and still has a long road to recovery. Jake is a huge Manchester United fan and up until his diagnosis he was an aspiring goalkeeper.

As you can imagine Jake’s diagnosis is impacting the family in every way possible.

As a community, it would be amazing if we could all show solidarity and come together to help provide some financial support to relieve the additional pressure on Jake’s family so that they can concentrate on Jake’s treatment and rehabilitation.

For anyone who doesn’t know Jake, his story is below:

Jake was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma (bone) cancer in his right knee in March 2022, after him complaining of pain in it whilst playing in goal for Burnley U14 academy team. He then had 16 weeks of chemotherapy at Manchester Children’s Hispital and underwent surgery at Birmingham to replace his knee, tibia and femur with titanium implants. He then needed 14 more weeks of chemotherapy back at Manchester Children’s Hospital to ‘mop up’ and remaining cancerous cells. He rang the bell in ward 86 in May of last year, as there was no sign of the cancer and he then had gruelling sessions of physiotherapy and hydrotherapy to enable him to walk again.

Unfortunately, after one of his MRI scans in October of last year, if was found that the cancer had returned in his hip. We were devastated as we really thought he had beat this horrible disease. So he started a different type of chemotherapy in February of this year, of which there are six sessions, and he has had 3 now, so 3 to go. He had an MRI scan after the second lot of chemotherapy and it was found that the chemotherapy was attacking the tumour and breaking it down. It also showed that there was a small cancerous tumour in his lung and a suspected tumour in his back, but the tumour in his lung had not grown since his first scan so that is good news. After his most recent scan, the radiologist had confirmed that the issue in his back is now

……………..NOT cancerous.

So now he will finish this chemo in June and go for surgery in July where Jake has requested an amputation of his right leg and pelvis, which, as the surgeon confirmed, will give him more quality of life and less chance of the cancer returning.

Let’s do all we can to raise money for this truly inspiring young boy!