cancer. Fraser Shaw begged medics for help after suffering hamstring pains but wasn't prepared for the sinister results tests revealed, reports Edinburgh Live.
After blood tests, doctors found the 17-year-old from Edinburgh had Ewing Sarcoma - a rare type of cancer that affects the bones and surrounding tissue.
The condition only affects around 600 young people per year in the UK.It was only after Fraser complained about body aches and having to frequently take painkillers that hospital staff got to the bottom of his illness.
Fraser told Edinburgh Live : “The first time I phoned in, they said it was just a ham string thing, just that I’d it and that’s why it was so sore. “But then I went to a physiotherapist and she said ‘It's not your.