‘It was life-shattering:’ Parents launch childhood cancer charity after losing son, 5, to incurable cancer

Just 10% of children diagnosed with DIPG will survive for two years following their diagnosis. The average life expectancy is nine months. 

Oscar's parents have set up a national childhood cancer charity in his name 

Yavanna, Lar, and Oscar Keogh spent three and a half years as a young family in a “whirlwind” of joy and adventure.

As a young couple in their mid-30s, Oscar was Yavanna and Lar’s first child and he was “the brightest little boy you could imagine,” his mother says.