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5 year old kid sells 3000 of his drawings to pay his own cancer treatment

A little boy fighting cancer is selling pictures he has drawn of his favourite monsters to pay for the treatment that could save his life. 

Aidan Reed, five, from Kansas City, U.S., was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia on September 13 last year. 

Since then he has undergone weeks of treatment as well as chemotherapy, infections, spinal taps and other painful procedures.

Parents Katie and Wiley were devastated by the diagnosis, but were given hope when experts said the type of cancer Aidan suffers from has a 90 per cent cure rate. 

But the family faced a mountain of hospital bills and had to put their home on the market to fund treatment. 

Amazingly, that sale is now on hold thanks to the idea of turning Aidan’s passion for drawing monsters into a money-generating life-saver. 

The little boy has sold more than 3,000 drawings, many of them sketched in his hospital bed as he underwent gruelling treatment. 

Total sales topped more than $30,000 and Aidan has sold enough that his family were able to take their home off the market and they no longer require further funding for his care.