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Brave Tyler beats cancer for third timeGrant McArthur,
Herald Sun
31 Jan 2019Courageous Tyler Fishlock has beaten cancer for the third time one day before starting Year 11 and getting on with the next chapter of his life.
After a third horror journey through surgery and chemotherapy, Tyler and his family received the remarkable news from Royal Children’s Hospital doctors on Tuesday that he was in again remission.
Despite the enormity of the occasion, the 16-year-old was determined to immediately put his latest battle behind him and has gone to school today to start Year 11 like every other child.
Just a few weeks ago Tyler’s body was struggling so much his aggressive treatment had to be cut short and he missed his last four rounds of chemotherapy, but his mother Georgette Fishlock said nothing could stop him triumphing.
“He has beaten cancer again — he is just an amazing kid,” she said.
“We hoped and prayed it was going to be enough. But, his PET scans came back clean, and his oncologist said ‘you’re back in remission’.
“I have never won Tattslotto, but I can you that I reckon this feels a hell of a lot better.
“Tyler is Tyler — his oncologist said ‘you are back in remission, what do you think about that?’
“But he just focused on the next chapter of his life and, as he said to Brad and I, ‘it is time to get my life back, to take control and do what I want to do’.”
Tyler lost both his eyes and half his face fighting an ongoing battle with rare genetic cancer retinoblastoma in his youngest years.
He again had to fight a recurrence of cancer in 2014, having a nightmare journey through aggressive chemotherapy and surgery, but survived.
Then, in April last year, Tyler was again diagnosed with cancer after a mysterious broken bones in his right leg.
After some initial rounds of chemotherapy to try to halt the spread of the tumours doctors operated to remove as much of the cancer as they could on August 6.
Tyler was scheduled for 20 rounds of aggressive chemotherapy but, after enduring 16 rounds his kidneys were struggling and a transplant was on the cards as his body could take no more, so the treatment was cut short early this year.
“Things were not great, but he came out flying, refused to have his leg amputated and said ‘no, the treatment will work, I’ll make sure it does’,” Ms Fishlock said.
“The tumour started shrinking and got to the point they could have surgery (to) resection his leg and he then continued with chemo because there was a lot of live tumour still left in his leg.
“They warned us his leg would be quite bad, because they had to sever nerves and rejoin everything … his leg and foot are pretty numb but Tyler being Tyler, he got out of his wheelchair and has been walking with one leg he could feel and one he could not.
“He has not looked back. He just wants to be back to normal, even though his normal is not like everyone else’s normal.”
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