Boy, 4, celebrates first day at school with twin sister after battling leukaemia and stroke

THIS four-year-old lad is starting school with his twin sister after battling leukaemia and a stroke.

Noah Karunananthan was diagnosed with cancer aged two in May 2022 after he stopped eating and drinking.

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Noah Karunananthan is starting school for the first time after battling a rare type of cancerCredit: SWNS
Noah was diagnosed with Acute lymphoblastic leukemia

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Noah was diagnosed with Acute lymphoblastic leukemiaCredit: SWNS

He was given chemotherapy at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital and while the treatment began to work, he got a fungal infection which led to a stroke.

Parents Sabe, 44, and Dilly, 43, feared he would not recover his movement or speech.

Now, after months of physiotherapy and an all-clear on his leukaemia, he is home in London and ready for classes with sister Naima.

Sabe, said: “We’ll see how they look in their uniforms next week! We’re going to go full throttle on the blazers, ties and shirts!

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“We’ve got the stroke and luekemia in the background but we have normal problems now – Noah doesn’t like buttons on his shirts!

“The whole process has felt very surreal.

“As soon as someone says he has cancer, all I wanted to know what his chances of survival.

“I didn’t realise they were so many types of blood cancer.

“But when we got to Great Ormond Street, the consultant reassured us and all of a sudden, all of the ifs, became whens – we suddenly had a roadmap.”

Dilly added: “I didn’t really process it at all.”

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Baby Noah and his mother Dilly

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Baby Noah and his mother DillyCredit: SWNS
Noah was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow in May 2022

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Noah was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow in May 2022Credit: SWNS
While at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, Noah got a fungal infection which led to a stroke

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While at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital, Noah got a fungal infection which led to a strokeCredit: SWNS