News | LondonSchoolboys cut off their hair to support best friend with leukaemia The Tiggys: the boys after having their heads shaved Anna Dubuis18 June 2014Rufus Egerickx and his three best friends, who call themselves the Tiggys, had always done everything together.So when Rufus, then six, was diagnosed with leukaemia last May and began to lose his hair during treatment, Eliot de Ganay and twins Cole and Axel Dickson didn’t hesitate — they volunteered to shave their heads too.A video of the four receiving their matching buzz-cuts together has since helped raise more than £7,000 for Cancer Research UK.Read MoreCancer Research UK urge women to sign up to Race For LifeCancer survivor, 22, wins place to study disease at leading London medical instituteBereaved daughter sets up #redlipstickselfie social media fundraising drive for lung cancerRufus’s mother, 47-year-old Fiona Barnett from Wimbledon, said: “It made something which could have been awful into something fun.”Rufus, now seven, is back at school but is still having treatment. Doctors say he has a 95 per cent chance of a complete recovery.The Tiggys were invited to start Cancer Research UK’s flagship Race for Life in Battersea Park last week.They are continuing their fundraising efforts.MORE ABOUTCancerCancer Research Uk
