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Thomas’ story

Among the children added to the program was Thomas Edney whose cancer was discovered in 2014 when he was just two years old. A shy little boy, he was on a family holiday on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula when his parents, John and Abigail, became concerned there was something very wrong.

“At first we thought it was gastro,” says John of Thomas’ bouts of vomiting. Abigail took

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