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Blyth youngster to be fitted with new eye after losing his own to cancer; Little Ellis Hicks of Blyth, Northumberland, will be fitted with an artificial eye after he lost his to retinablastoma when he was just 10 months old.

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Byline: Katie Davies

Brave Ellis Hicks will soon be fitted with a new eye after losing his own to a rare form of cancer.

The ten-year-old will undergo an operation to have a new artificial eye after medics discovered his damaged retina could not be saved.

Ellis was diagnosed with retinablastoma -- a cancer which affects the eyes in early childhood - when he was just 13 months old.

Doctors told his parents Suzanne and Stephen that they would have to remove his left eye after the tumours caused his retina to detach.

And now the youngster - who has to have the artificial eye replaced as he grows - has undergone a series of medical tests as he prepares to be fitted with a new lens.

Medics have created a mould for the new eye and it now could take up to several weeks to produce.

Mum Suzanne Wilson, 37, of Blyth, Northumberland, said: "They have created the mould and have completed a colour match and we just need to wait for it being produced.

"He needs a new eye as he's had the last one now for five years.

"The procedure can be quite uncomfortable for Ellis as they have to pour liquid into the eye to create mould.

"We are hoping it will be fitted in July or August."

Ellis, who now attends Bede Academy in Blyth, was referred to Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary after a health visitor noticed he had what she thought was a lazy eye.

And after the cancer was diagnosed he was forced to...

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