Mother honors son's memory by championing early cancer detection after hayfever misdiagnosis

When a teenage boy's stuffy nose and tired eyes were dismissed as hayfever, the months lost to misdiagnosis became the measure of a tragedy. Jake Swinscoe, thirteen years old, died two weeks before his fourteenth birthday from an aggressive cancer that had already reached stage three before anyone thought to look deeper. His mother, Lynsey, now trains as a radiotherapist and works with childhood cancer charities — not simply to grieve, but to honor a promise she made to a boy who feared being forgotten more than he feared dying.