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imes ■5«t# Thursday, November 6lh, 2008 No. 6,379 news and views from the Centre of the Kingdom www.cIHheroeadvertis,. INSIDE THIS WEEK «s£_ ,y e7 0 p v < by Faiza Afzaal


IHUNDREDSW HOMiSFOR^Alf SPARES 21-34


A CHILD cancer survivor came fac^to-face with a six-: storey-high image of himself when - a-‘powerful Cancer ’^Research;;UK• awareness


campai^ was launched. ■


- The face of Clithefoe school-


■ boy Declah Tattersall (eight), is beirig shown oh'the 59ft. Man­ chester Tower screen, hear Pic­ cadilly, train station, to kick-off the^charity’s “ Behind Every Success Ston^’’ initiative. > ; ' Declah, ijictured, who attends


St Michael and St-John’s RC Primary School,-not only saw himself,on the big screen for the first time yesterday, hut had. a^ chance to ^ y .“ thank you” to a leading: Manchester scientist; who is helping to pioneer better


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V treatments for childhood cancer. .. The'vBehind-Every Success Story” awareness campaign highlights the impact-Cancer


•Research U K ’s cutting edge work has' had on the lives of peo-


: pie with cancer. - A poster, which will appear at hundreds.of sites across the


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- North-West,: including bus- • stops,;7ailway stations, bill­ boards; gjmis; popping centres


: and in;the window of Cancer ' Research UK shops,"feata^^ Declah’s upper body contrasting


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- with: the lower body .of a scien- ' tist hard at work in a laborato­


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: -Declansaid: “ It^s really .cool i all over the place. I loved haying


ry--' , ■ ' - “ I’m glad I don’t have to go to


hospital all the time any more. I think the doctors who made me better are really great.’.’ . Declan; who lives with his par­


ents. Lea and Kieron Tattersall and fiye-year-bld sister, Libby, in Grindleton, was dia^osed with astrocytoma - a tuindur on his spine wheii he was-just 18- months-old. The fun-loving youngster, had been unwell for


. months, but doctors initially ■ thought he was’ suffering from.. teething pains.


. He underwent surgery to remove most of the tumour, but a small section proyed inopera-


, 'ble.,Sadly, a subsequent scan revealed that the remaining part ; of the tumour had started to spread and D^lan needed inten-


' sive chemotherapy treatment, which caused his hair to fall out.


.. . Happily the brave ’youngster, whoisanavidBlackbumRovers- supporter, is now fighting fit and has been free from cancer for more than four years. 7 ’ WhehDeclanvisited.Man-


chester, he and'his family had a chance .to meet Profe^or .Vaskar


. Saha', who is the head of the 7 Cancer Research UK Children’s- Cancer Group. Professor, Saha, who is bdsed .


at the Paterson Institute for • Cancer Research in Withiiigton, •:


: is also a Consultant in Paediatric Oncology at the Royal Man- chester Children’s. Hospital in


'Pendlebury,c.‘.where 'D e c la n received his treatment.


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