A little boy who had a suspected knee fracture ended up having his leg amputated after doctors discovered he actually had bone cancer.
Corinthian Marchant, nine, had his right left amputated above the knee in December 2024 after being diagnosed with osteosarcoma - bone cancer - last year.
He began complaining of leg pains last summer and started struggling to walk, but it wasn't until late September 2024 that he got the diagnosis.
Corinthian Marchant, nine, had his right left amputated above the knee in December 2024 after being diagnosed with osteosarcoma - bone cancer - last year.
He began complaining of leg pains last summer and started struggling to walk, but it wasn't until late September 2024 that he got the diagnosis.
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00:00Hi, so this is how we found out our son had bone cancer.
00:03So in July, he started complaining of leg pains and eventually he started limping on it.
00:09So we took him to the GP who wanted a scan.
00:13We then took him to the hospital who sent us back saying it was out of hours, even though it was only about five, and went back the next day.
00:20They gave him an x-ray. The x-ray technician thought it was fractured on his knee.
00:26So they sent us to the injury clinic. The injury clinic lady disagreed, but decided to get a second opinion from the fracture clinic.
00:34So she did a referral weeks late and we got that appointment and the consultant just said that he needed an MRI.
00:41So weeks late, we went for the MRI and we were waiting and waiting.
00:47This was supposed to be an emergency scan, but we just got the usual letter and appointment.
00:53But, yeah, so we waited for the results and eventually we got an appointment saying that we had to wait further.
01:00At that point, he wasn't eating. He was in so much pain. He wasn't sleeping properly.
01:05He couldn't walk on it at all. He had no walking aid, so I took him into A&E and said, look, something needs to be done.
01:13They pulled us aside and an hour later, they eventually told us that you should have been told this sooner, but your son has a tumour.
01:20By the end of that day, he had all the necessary scans and they confirmed that they thought it was bone cancer.
01:26We then had to wait, I think it was weeks again, for a biopsy to be done in Birmingham.
01:35And he also had an MRI, a full-body one, in Nottingham.
01:40And around the 20th of September, that eventually got confirmed that it was bone cancer.
01:47So he had all those necessary chemos, but unfortunately, we recently got told that it's got bigger.
01:52It was just in his tibia, but it's got bigger and it's moved into his knee.
01:56So what was going to be an implant operation is now an amputation just above the knee to try and get rid of all the cancer cells and hopefully try and save him.
02:08He's also got some clouds, well not clouds, but shadows on his lungs, which there was just one and now there's multiple,
02:16but they're not going to investigate that until after he's had the amputation, which is happening tomorrow.
02:21So please do wish him luck. Thank you.