VIDEO: Schoolboy given three weeks to live delivers emotional speech to entire school

18-year-old cancer patient Jake Bailey was told by his doctors that he wouldn’t be able to attend his school’s prize giving ceremony as he lay in his hospital bed, it was advice he felt he had to ignore.

Last week Jake - from Christchurch, New Zealand - received the news that he had Burkitts non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a very fast growing and aggressive form of cancer.

Without treatment Jake’s medical team estimate he has about three weeks to live and now faces intensive bouts of chemotherapy.