Anxious young man with mother's cancer would discover he also had a disease

Amy-Jessica Millard was diagnosed with cancer in March 2024. By that time, the son Theo also began to have health problems, which the doctors thought was a consequence of the nervous state in which he was due to his mother's disease.

After all, Theo was also suffering from cancer.

According to 43 - year - old Amy, her son began vomiting out of control and lost his appetite in June 2026. After several visits to the family doctor he was eventually referred to the hospital

Here, the young man, who also suffers from autism, was diagnosed with a severe picture of anxiety and later advised to seek help with his nervous breakdowns, says The Mirror.

During the therapies to this latter problem, Theo began to complain of back pain, fever, night sweats, abdominal pain, and during an appointment in October, the family doctor would detect a lump on his neck. 

After an ultrasound and an MRI at the hospital, the family would discover on October 14, that Theo had a Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of cancer of the blood and lymphatic system.

“ When they [the doctors] told me "it's cancer", I didn't react, because I already knew. Theo is autistic and has severe anxiety. When I received my diagnosis, he was very, very worried that I would also get the disease or that I already had it”, recalls Amy, remembering that this is what happened.

“ We still do not know what the treatment plan will be, because we continue to wait for the complete results ", says the mother, who tells the story of the child as a way to encourage other mothers to always follow their instincts.

“ You need to defend yourself and your children and simply trust your instincts when you realize that something is not right,” says Hampshire-born woman in the UK.

Amy and Theo's family have meanwhile set up a fundraising campaign to help with the travel expenses and treatment of both.