
This weekend, radio personality Kate Langbroek will run 5km through Melbourne’s CBD to raise money for the Children’s Cancer Foundation.
Her inspiration is her son Lewis, who is a childhood cancer survivor.
On Friday, the Hughesy & Kate radio presenter shared a photo of herself and her eldest son on Instagram, speaking of how she wasn’t sure she’d ever get to watch him grow up into the teenager he is today.
“When this boyo, my firstborn, our beloved Lewis Lewis was diagnosed with leukaemia (t-call ALL) in 2009, I could barely dare dream that he would one day be a strapping, lanky 14-year-old giving me a cuddle at work,” the 52-year-old comedian and presenter captioned the image.
In 2009, Lewis was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). ALL is a type of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow, the Leukaemia Foundation reports. The form Lewis had is called T-cell ALL – it’s seen in 20-25 per cent of all ALL cases and arises in the body’s developing T-cells.
Of the approximately 225 children diagnosed with leukaemia in Australia each year, 175 are diagnosed with ALL, making it the most common type of childhood cancer. The disease, which is most prevalent in children between the ages of two and four, is most commonly diagnosed in boys.