Almost 5,000 people queued for hours in the rain to get tested to see if they were a match to help save the life of a five-year-old boy fighting a rare cancer.The potential donors volunteered to help brave Oscar Saxelby-Lee following a desperate plea from his parents.The youngster is in a race against time to find a lifesaving stem cell donor after he was diagnosed with rare cancer.Oscar was diagnosed with the aggressive form of leukaemia after bruising turned out to be cancer on December 28 last year, The Sun reports.
Doctors say he now has just three months to find a stem-cell match that could save his life.More than 4,800 donors queued up to get tested at the youngster’s primary school, in Worcester, UK over the weekend. Family friend Lin Forward said that Oscar’s mum Olivia Saxelby has been “amazing” while enduring “every parent’s worst nightmare”.She said: “Little Oscar is really sick at the moment. Normally he had been able to get to the hospital shop on a walking frame, but now he’s in isolation and can’t even eat.