Boxer Amir Khan has helped a brave Fife schoolboy battle cancer.
Euan Burns, 10, who lives with his parents Andy and Kathleen in Crossgates, has fought the disease for two years.
However, he has now been given the all-clear.
It was in December 2012 that Euan’s struggle started when he could not put any weight on his right ankle.
After tests came the devastating news that the Hill of Beath Primary pupil had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
Andy said: “I felt the colour drain out of my body and tears were streaming down my face.
“Kathleen was the same and they said to us that ward two at the Sick Kids in Edinburgh was waiting for us.”
Euan went through chemotherapy treatment which weakened his immune system and caused him to experience severe seizures.
At one point, doctors even told his parents that he would have been dead by the morning if they had put him to bed. In August 2013 doctors found one of the drugs had caused a blood clot in his brain he then suffered a massive seizure.
Last January Euan was diagnosed with refeeding syndrome, a condition where the body loses its ability to absorb minerals and vitamins.
Andy said: “His body was going to shut down and the consultant said that if we’d put him to bed that night, he’d have been dead in the morning.”
Now two years into a three-year period of treatment, the family has been given the news they were all hoping for.
Andy said while you know the cancer may return, it was still “absolutely amazing”.
His parents believe a visit from Khan encouraged him.
Andy said: “At the time he was in intensive care and was very drugged up but there was a hugely positive reaction when Amir was in the room. His chance of survival was very little but he was smiling and extremely happy when Amir visited him in hospital.”