‘Keep fighting’: brave Chinese schoolboy’s fight against bone cancer saluted by classmates in touching video
- Teen was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2015 and had his left leg amputated two years ago
- He has remained undaunted by his health challenges and has earned various awards since enrolling at his current high school
“Guocheng, keep fighting! We will be waiting for you at gaokao,” senior classmates said one by one to the camera in a cheerful video sent to their class president Li Guocheng, 19, a bone cancer sufferer undergoing treatment in hospital.
“Thank you, my classmates. I am really touched by the video. I will fight cancer and return to school as soon as possible to take gaokao,” Li said in a response video from his hospital bed, reported Xibujuece news website.
Li attends a vocational secondary school in Ningxiang, in Hunan Province, central China. As a senior high school student, he would normally be in class studying for the gaokao, China’s college entrance exam, held every June.
However, Li is confined to a hospital bed due to bone cancer and a secondary tumour in his right lung.
His battle with the disease began in 2015 when he was diagnosed with malignant bone cancer after experiencing sudden tingling pain in his left leg, San Xiang City News reported.
Due to the tumour’s growth, doctors had to amputate his left leg in 2017 and replaced it with a prosthetic limb.