BRAVE East Lancashire cancer battler Sam Shaw has passed another milestone on his road to recovery.

The five-year-old Hoddlesden youngster, whose life recently returned to some normality after a long battle with neuroblastoma, has been given booster jabs to allow his body to fight back against any infections.

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His mum Christine said the immunisations will put an end to a daily range of pills and antibiotics designed to boost his immune system, which was wiped out when Sam had his stem cell transplant last August.

She said on her Facebook page: “As part of his treatment Sam had around 98 injections and countless thumb pricks and cannulas inserted for blood tests and anaesthetics, so he is by no means a stranger to needles and has developed quite a hatred for them.

“So as you can imagine he was not looking forward to visiting the clinic to be given these injections. Although he said many times he didn’t want them, he still walked into the clinic and sat and endured them with no fuss at all.

“We are just so unbelievably proud of Sam and his amazing bravery. He has been through so much.”

The nurses did some of the immunisations together, so Sam only had to have three jabs and a flu vaccination.

Christine added: “The two nurses positioned themselves at each of side of him and gave him two simultaneous injec-tions, followed by another two simultaneous injections.

“Then they also awarded him four stickers — one for each jab — and a bravery certificate.”

Sam was given the all clear from the childhood cancer after receiving immuno-therapy treatment in America, after £250,000 was raised by people all over East Lancashire.