A close family friend claimed Harley was informed he might be experiencing “growing pains”.

Just shy of two weeks ago, however, the teenager – reportedly a keen soccer and rugby player – from Leigh, Greater Manchester, noticed blood in his urine.

His father then made the decision to take him to hospital, where doctors delivered the devastating news that he had stage four luekemia, an aggressive form of blood cancer.

“She had only taken him to the doctor a few weeks ago and said they put it down to growing pains or a viral infection,” Harley’s former elementary school teaching assistant, Kaylee Jackson, who is also a close friend of Harley’s mother, told the Mail.

“Obviously, you don’t think that at 16 they could be seriously unwell. I don’t think