Little Alfie Phillips was diagnosed with leukemia. (Stacey Dunne via SWNS)
By James Connolly, Isobel Forbes
A family has said their world was "turned upside down" after their four-year-old son came home from nursery with a temperature - which was later diagnosed as leukemia .
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