Senior Sergeant Paul Hunter (left) Inspector Owen Hortz (right) Harry Hunter (centre)
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and on Friday, September 14 members of the Queensland Police Service and Queensland Health rallied together for the #team100 event to support 11-year-old Harry Hunter.
Harry, who was diagnosed with Philadelphia Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) in February last year, is the son of Senior Sergeant Paul Hunter, Officer in Charge of Broadbeach Station and Tash Hunter a Registered Nurse in the Emergency Department at Gold Coast University Hospital.
For the last 18 months, Harry has gone through treatments that have caused side effects resulting in life threatening infections, weakness, fatigue and sickness. He has been unable to walk unaided now for 8 months.
The good news is that Harry is now in remission, although the battle does not stop here, he still needs chemotherapy treatment until March 2019. If a person with Harry’s condition relapses
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