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By James Holt & Susie Beever A little boy died after suffering ‘rare side effects’ of medication he was on, an inquest has heard. ‘Smiley’ Ellis James Hamer-Holland died of pancreatitis which came about after he was given medicines while undergoing intensive cancer treatment. Days before his death, the five-year-old was re-admitted to Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital with severe abdominal pain. Ellis was being treated for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at the time of his death in April 2022, which he’d been diagnosed with three years earlier in August 2019. The cancer affects the blood and …

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