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Fundraiser launched for 6 year old Irish boy in need of US treatment for rare cancer

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Fundraiser launched for 6 year old Waterford boy in need of US treatment for rare cancer

...6 year old Waterford boy seeking treatment in the United States for a rare cancer. Danny Norris was diagnosed with Stage 4 NEUROBLASTOMA - a cancer of the nervous system which affects between seven and ten children in Ireland annually - in the summer of 2020....

18 Nov 2021 at 13:24

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Longford's ‘Mighty Max’ remembered in groundbreaking new podcast

...his dog Buddy. He’d have a wrestling mask on and he’d put one on the dog and they’d roll around.” Max was diagnosed with NEUROBLASTOMA in July 2012, two weeks after his second birthday. He passed away one day after his 8th birthday in 2018. “I know this...

04 Sept 2021 at 17:00

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Childhood Cancer Awareness Month - what is childhood cancer and how are families supported?

...from our body. The most common types of malignant tumours in the liver are hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma. NEUROBLASTOMA is cancer that affects nerve cells called neuroblasts. It occurs either in the nervous system or adrenal glands and is...

15 Sept 2021 at 11:46

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Former Longford garda overwhelmed by support as online appeal for cancer stricken son smashes €250k barrier

Liverpool fanatic Joseph Belton has courageously been battling NEUROBLASTOMA, a rare form of cancer, for the past two and a half years. In that time, the happy-go-lucky Roscommon schoolboy has been forced to forgo his love of Gaelic football and hurling for...

16 Mar 2023 at 08:00

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Family hopes to give resilient little boy diagnosed with aggressive cancer ‘a fighting chance’

...“playful and energetic” two-year-old, Rio McCarthy, has been diagnosed with a rare-childhood cancer, a stage four high-risk NEUROBLASTOMA. After going “back and forth” to their local hospital for two months, Rio’s parents were told their son was suffering from...

16 Jan 2024 at 10:30

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Longford Little Blue Hero Max Wenman: Family strive to ‘live life to the Max’

...taken on a different perspective. Cathy Bermingham lost her son Max Wenman a day after his 8th birthday after he battled NEUROBLASTOMA Cancer. Max was diagnosed two weeks after his second birthday and went into remission and relapsed twice. The second time...

29 Dec 2023 at 18:00

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...old Max Wenman will take place in PVs on October 5th. Max is a native of Ballinalee, and last July he was diagnosed with NEUROBLASTOMA, a childhood cancer that attacks the tissues that form the sympathetic nervous system. He has had a tumour removed and is...

28 Aug 2012 at 16:21

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Longford's 'Mighty Max' Wenman "packed a lifetime of love" into his eight years

...by news of death of inspirational and brave Little Max Wenman The much loved Longford youngster was first diagnosed with NEUROBLASTOMA, a form of cancer that often affects children and babies, at the age of two. A large selection of gifts were brought to the...

29 Jun 2018 at 15:04

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'My son didn't lose his fight,' says father of Longford's 'Mighty Max' Wenman

...comes.” The fun loving and avid wrestling fan passed away in his parents' arms on Wednesday after a six year battle with NEUROBLASTOMA, a rare form of cancer that most commonly occurs in infants and children under the age of five. In his homily to worshippers...

04 Jul 2018 at 13:00

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Killoe to host fundraisers for Longford's Little Max this weekend

...Max Wenman and his family. “Max is a six-year-old boy and when he was two years of age, he was diagnosed with stage four NEUROBLASTOMA Cancer. Max went through a clinical trial and was declared cancer-free in September 2013. Unfortunately Max had a relapse...

26 Oct 2016 at 13:00

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Longford rallies behind Little Max in cancer fight

... was taken into the county’s and indeed the nation’s heart in 2012 at the age of two when he was diagnosed with stage four NEUROBLASTOMA. Just under three years ago, the family got the life-changing news that Max was cancer free but earlier this year, he sadly...

17 Jun 2016 at 09:00

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Longford's Little Max defiantly battles the odds

...be six years old but mighty Max Wenman from Killoe is currently battling all the odds as he continues his fight to beat NEUROBLASTOMA. Last week members of Longford Macra na Feirme presented the family with €1,000 from the organisation’s hugely successful...

19 Jan 2017 at 16:00

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