A nine-year-old boy who spent years of his life battling recurring brain tumors is now climbing to the top of Mount Everest to raise money for charity.

Arthur Middleton, from Lincolnshire, had a difficult start to life when he was born prematurely at 26 weeks in 2014.

Just before his third birthday, Arthur’s parents, Claire and Henry, noticed that he was having seizures, feeling nauseous, slurring his words and losing the use of his right hand.

After an MRI scan, the couple was then told that their son had a brain tumor the size of a golf ball.

‘It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. You just go into overdrive and think about what it means,” Claire, 41, told MailOnline.

They were then blue-lit to Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, in 2017, where he underwent a successful operation and the family would move to North Carolina in January that year.

After learning to walk again, Arthur had a scan in December and the family were told the tumor had returned to the size of a ping-pong ball.

Ex-lawyer Claire said this was ‘quite unusual’ for a low-grade tumor as it was quite ‘aggressive’. Arthur then underwent another operation to remove this tumor as they crossed the pond.

The parents were then told that despite two operations to remove the tumor, it continued to grow back and that the next step was to try chemotherapy.

But after five months it stopped working.

Claire and Henry, who work in finance, then found a clinical trial in America and managed to get Arthur enrolled in it.

“We put him on medication that is actually like a targeted therapy because his tumor cells have a certain genetic mutation and we were fortunate that they were testing different genetic mutations,” the stay-at-home mom said. .

‘Luckily he has one of the genetic mutations that one of the drugs targets, so we confronted him about that in America.’

Arthur remained in the trial for two years and within the first few months the size of the tumor had reduced by 80 percent.

Over the next few years on this drug, Arthur was completely stable.

But after the trial was completed, he had to stop taking the medication and the tumor started growing again.

Claire said the family were able to access this drug after a difficult time when they returned to Britain in early 2022.

“He continues to take that and it’s kept everything stable for five years now and he takes it every day,” Claire said.

“He goes to school and his immune system isn’t compromised or anything. We are fortunate that we are currently in a stable situation.

‘Now that we’ve learned more about it, we feel like we’re one of the lucky ones to have been diagnosed with low grade.

‘Even though it was very large when they found it and it had long-term health consequences for him, we’re lucky it’s low quality.’

‘His journey to the brain tumor has been very difficult and it is still a bit ongoing. I don’t think we have any illusions that we are one of the lucky ones.’

Now Arthur is raising money for The Brain Tumor Charity by climbing Mount Everest – a whopping 8,849 metres.

Although he has a weakness on the side of his body, it hasn’t stopped him from achieving his goal of raising awareness about brain tumors.

‘[I’m] honestly so proud. He had been talking about doing this for a while and we were worried that he wouldn’t be able to do it physically as it is still a challenge.

‘But we were talking about New Year’s resolutions with the family and he said, ‘I’m going to climb the mountain to raise money.’

‘It’s great as a mother to see how proud and how successful he is in what he does. He struggles academically at school and with sports.

“He’s not going to be team captain, but this is his thing and he’s very proud of himself.

‘He’s finding it difficult because we’re climbing in some pretty challenging weather conditions at the moment, but he’s determined and won’t give up.’

Arthur has spent his spare time climbing several mountains including Whernside, Buckden Pike and Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales and Thorpe Cloud in the Peak District.

Claire said her son also went outside and climbed when Storm Isha hit Britain.

‘I think that was quite a challenge for him and he was talking about the wind and the rain at the top.

‘I think he found it quite frightening. But when he reached the bottom he was very proud of himself for doing it and now he is proud to tell everyone that he climbed that. [during] Storm Isha.’

He has currently reached 2,500 million with around 6,349 million to go and has raised almost £6,000 for charity so far.

Claire says he likes to update his regularly Instagram page on his progress.

Arthur usually walks up mountains with members of his family, but since then he has had peers from his school willing to join him on his journey.

His school also held a fundraising day where students and teachers wore hats and donated to his cause.

Claire and Henry are going on a climb in April with some of Arthur’s teachers and friends.

To donate to Arthur’s page, click here.

An Ohio home has become a hot spot for people looking for a miracle after several people claimed the house cured them of terminal illnesses.

Reports of the astonishing events began in 1939, when Rhoda Wise lived in the house at 2337 25th St. NE in Canton with her alcoholic husband and young adopted daughter.

Wise claimed she developed a terminal illness and was sent home from the hospital to die in the “depression hut,” as her home was previously called.

“So she prayed because that was the only thing she could do,” said Karen Sigler, executive director of the nonprofit Rhoda Wise Home & Grotto.

Wise said she was then “visited by Jesus Christ” – who reportedly sat in a wooden chair next to her bed and healed her illness.

“Jesus came and sat on the chair next to her bed. She asked him, “Did you come for me?” And he said, 'No, your time has not yet come,' said Sigler, 'a month later he came back with St. Therese, and she was the one who put her hands on Rhoda's belly and her belly was completely healed. .'

After miraculously recovering from her cancer and the deadly infection she suffered following the removal of a 39-pound tumor, she subsequently developed stigmata – which many Christians believe is the spontaneous bleeding on the body that corresponds to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus.

After news of the miracle broke, people flocked to the house to view the house and see the chair where Jesus supposedly sat.

The public sought spiritual guidance, and reporters were sent by newspapers and national magazines to write about Ohio's miracle house.

People wanted to witness the “heavenly visitations” that Wise received until her death in 1948.

“During one of the visits, Jesus blessed the water (in a large jar) and told Rhoda that those who use this water would be rewarded for their faith,” Sigler said.

Rhoda wasn't the only person to experience a shocking recovery at home.

Dr. Mark Shoag, who was diagnosed with stage 4 sarcoma, and his wife Betsy shared their miracles with Fox 8.

“Honestly, as a physician, I felt like there was no way I could leave this hospital,” Dr. Shoag said. 'I had trouble breathing, I couldn't walk.'

“He had 48 tumors,” said Betsy, who is also a respiratory therapist, “40 tumors in his lungs and the remaining tumors were in his liver and once you get tumors in the liver they only have months to live.”

A friend told the woman about Rhoda Wise – and she decided to take a piece of clothing from her husband, who was too ill to go home himself, to place on the chair where 'Jesus sat'.

After four months of not being able to walk or get out of bed, Shoag was suddenly able to walk to the grocery store.

He then went to Canton to visit the house himself – and six years later, Shoag has almost fully recovered.

“It was literally a miracle,” Betsy said. “He's doing great, he's getting treatment and he's happy.”

“I'm six years later,” said Dr. Shoag, “my lungs are stable, the only place I still have a tumor is the liver. And I don't know if I'd be here if I didn't go to Rhoda Wise. I mean, for me it's been a miracle.”

Another person who benefited from the wonders of Wise's humble home was Andrea Kissel-Conti, who visited the house when she was five years old and suffering from an “incurable kidney disease.”

“I had a vision of St. Therese, and she said to me after a while, tell them you will get better in a while, tell them you will get better, and she smiled and all the time rose petals were falling,” said Andrea, “and I've never had to go to the doctor with kidney disease.”

Bobbi McKnight suffered from double vision, which miraculously disappeared after she visited the house.

The house is free to visit and welcome to everyone, regardless of religion.

The “Miracle House” has even become a tourist attraction in Ohio, receiving a five-star rating on the review website TripAdvisor.com.

“If you need a moment with God or maybe even healing, come here. As their sign states, denomination doesn't matter here,” Ron R said in a review on TripAdvisor.com.

“A visit to the Rhoda Wise house is incredible,” said Kara B on TripAdvisor.com. ' Mrs. Wise's story is wonderful and beautiful. Miracles have happened here. The process for beatification and canonization is currently underway.”

Visitors can take home a bottle of holy water from Rhoda Wise's home as a souvenir.

Bladder cancer has one of the highest incidence rates in the world and is the fourth most common tumor in men.

London: A team of Spanish researchers has managed to reduce the size of bladder tumors in mice by 90 percent using a single dose of urea-powered nanorobots.

Bladder cancer has one of the highest incidence rates in the world and is the fourth most common tumor in men.

Despite the relatively low mortality rate, almost half of bladder tumors resurface within five years, necessitating continued patient monitoring.

Frequent hospital visits and the need for repeated treatments contribute to this type of cancer being one of the most expensive to cure.

Although current treatments that administer drugs directly into the bladder show good survival rates, their therapeutic efficacy remains low.

In the study, published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, researchers used nanorobots: small nanomachines consisting of a porous sphere made of silica. Their surfaces contain different components with specific functions.

This includes the enzyme urease, a protein that reacts with urea in the urine, allowing the nanoparticle to propel itself. Another crucial component is radioactive iodine, a radioisotope often used for the topical treatment of tumors.

These improvements aim to shorten the duration of hospital stay, implying lower costs and greater comfort for patients, said the team led by people from the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and CIC biomaGUNE in collaboration with the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB). Barcelona) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in Spain.

“With a single dose, we saw a 90 percent reduction in tumor volume. This is significantly more efficient as patients with this type of tumor typically have 6 to 14 hospital appointments with current treatments. Such a treatment approach would increase efficiency and reduce the length of hospital stay and treatment costs,” said Samuel Sanchez, ICREA research professor at IBEC and leader of the study.

The next step, which is already underway, is to determine whether these tumors return after treatment.

In previous research, the scientists confirmed that the self-propulsion ability of nanorobots allowed them to reach all bladder walls.

This new study goes even further by demonstrating not only the mobility of nanoparticles in the bladder, but also their specific accumulation in the tumor. This achievement was made possible by several techniques, including medical positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of the mice, as well as microscopy images of the tissues removed upon completion of the study.

The latter were recorded using a fluorescence microscopy system developed specifically for this project at IRB Barcelona. The system scans the different layers of the bladder and provides a 3D reconstruction, allowing observation of the entire organ.

Five mothers who became close friends after losing children to brain tumors have jumped out of a plane together.

Louise Fox, 49, from Barton-le-Clay in Bedfordshire, started connecting online with other mothers caring for children with tumors after son George was diagnosed with glioblastoma at the age of 13.

During his treatment, Louise met Niki O’Dea Patel, 42, from Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes, Nikki Treharne, 52, from Sandhurst, Berkshire, Clair Todd, 48, from Blyth, Northumberland and Katie Dove, 46, from Worth, Kent. .

All of their children were diagnosed with different types of brain tumors and they met on different Facebook pages.

The mothers chatted regularly on WhatsApp, sharing treatment options and supporting each other, along with three other mothers in the same position.

All eight children died between 2020 and 2022, and the mothers formed a strong friendship to help each other through their grief.

They created the page Forever Mums of Brain Tumor Angels and eventually all met in person minutes before five of them jumped out of a plane at 13,000 feet.

Their jump raised £70,700 for the Tessa Jowell Foundation, a brain cancer charity.

Louise said: ‘We are all mothers of an angel and the skydive helped us feel closer to them.

‘The loss of George was indescribable. I came up with the idea for the jump.

‘I’m definitely afraid of heights, but I really wanted to push our limits.

“No one else knows what it’s like to go through this and we are all part of the same club that no mother wants to belong to.

‘It was incredible and so emotional when we all met.

‘I feel so connected to these mothers through our journeys and grief – it was a very special day.’

Louise’s son George was 13 when he died from a brain tumor in April 2022, after surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

While he was receiving treatment, Louise met Niki O’Dea Patel on Facebook, whose eldest son Shay, 13, was diagnosed with a similar tumor in 2018: a seizure.

Niki said: ‘We were lucky to get 22 months. He passed in September 2020, but it is not good enough.

‘Louise and I became very close because our sons were the same age.

‘I started a charity in his name – Shay’s Smile – and we managed to raise more than £250,000 for research.’

Nikki Treharne’s son Ethan, 17, battled a brain tumor called glioblastoma for two years before passing away in November 2021.

Katie Dove started a charity – the Evie Dove Foundation – after her 13-year-old daughter Evie was diagnosed with CMMRD, a gene mutation that predisposes children to developing brain tumors.

Evie died 11 months later in April 2021.

Clair Todd joined the group after her son Connor, 15, died in October 2021 from a medulloblastoma brain tumor.

She said: ‘Louise bought us into this Facebook group together and we have helped each other through the toughest of times.’

Three other mothers from their group came on the day to meet the rest of the group for the first time, but were unable to jump due to health reasons.

Rebecca Gaskell, 48, from Rickmansworth, Buckinghamshire, whose daughter Grace battled the same tumor for two years and died aged 14 in November 2020.

Natasha Taylor, 29, from Luton, Bedfordshire, whose only child Renai, 11, died from a diffuse midline glioma tumour, joined the friendship group.

Nelly Crick, 32, from Elmswell, Suffolk, lost her youngest son, Harry, in October 2021, aged two.

She said: ‘Life has never been the same and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.’

Nelly’s husband Matt, 35, Rebecca’s daughter Imogen, 18, and Natasha’s partner Nath, 30, jumped in their place.

The skydive took place on October 14, 2023 at Sibson Airfield, Peterborough, and the mother said they felt ‘closer’ to their children ‘in heaven’.

Pascale Harvie, president and CEO of JustGiving, cheered on the mothers.

She said: ‘I am inspired by the Angel Mums and how they have channeled their pain into raising awareness and vital funds to help other children, in memory of their own.

‘We’ve seen an outpouring of admiration and love for the Angel Mums on JustGiving – Congratulations Angel Mums, you are extraordinary.’

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