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Our little boy bounced back from cancer

(Daily Express 21/07/2009)

When Cody Walker first complained of an ache in his leg his parents assumed it was nothing worse than growing pains. The little boy, then aged seven, was a keen gymnast, who also loved bouncing on the trampoline in his back garden. Within a few months, however, they were given the diagnosis that every family dreads. In January last year they were told that Cody had Ewing's sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer that affects about 30 children in the UK each year and is more common among boys.

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