The Boy in 7 Billion

The powerful and moving true story of a remarkable relationship and a tenacious fight for survival. Callie reveals her son's struggle through the physical and mental torment of battling cancer against impossible odds, and the truth behind her son's 'miraculous recovery' that she has held secret for years.
A powerful true story revealing a remarkablerelationship between a dying son – and a mother that refusesto let him go. At the age of 10, Deryn was diagnosed withLeukaemia. Then 18 months later he developed another rarecancer called Langerhans cell sarcoma. Only five other people inthe world have it. He is the youngest of them all and the onlyperson known to be fighting it alongside another cancer, makinghim one in seven billion. Told there was no hope of survival,after four years of intensive treatment, exhausted by his fightand with just days left to live, Deryn planned his own funeral.But Deryn’s desperate mother, Callie, would not let him give in.Battling medical errors, impossible odds and years of hardship,as the cancer consumed his body and their world, they lookedfor answers. After making some startling discoveries and takingmassive chances, something began to change... Would their livesas a family ever be the same again?