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Stephen Robert Sutton, (16 December 1994 – 14 May 2014), was an English blogger and charity activist known for his blog ''Stephen's Story'' and his fundraising efforts for the Teenage Cancer Trust charity for the aid of teenagers with cancer. As of 16 September 2014, Sutton had raised over £4.96 million from over 340,000 donors, more than four times his target.〔 Born in Burntwood, Staffordshire, Sutton performed well at school, but withdrew his applications to university in 2012 after his terminal prognosis for colorectal cancer, a disease which his father had fought twice as both were predisposed to it through Lynch syndrome. He began fundraising for the Teenage Cancer Trust, receiving support from celebrities and politicians. In 2013, he met filmmaker Grigorij Richters, who recorded him for a documentary. After his death, Sutton was posthumously recognised for his activism with awards including an MBE and an honorary doctorate from Coventry University. ==Early life== Sutton was born on 16 December 1994, and attended primary and secondary school in his home town of Burntwood, Staffordshire. During his youth, Sutton was a very active child, participating in sports and athletics, particularly long-distance running and football.〔 Sutton received straight A grades from Chase Terrace Technology College in August 2012, and had interviews at Cambridge University to study medicine, as well as universities in Leicester and Leeds. He later withdrew his applications before getting a verdict, after his cancer was determined to be incurable. Sutton, like his father Andy, had Lynch syndrome, a genetic predisposition to bowel cancer. The elder Sutton had surgery to remove part of his intestine after a cancer diagnosis in 1989. Twenty years later, he had another tumour removed, and a second course of chemotherapy, receiving an all-clear only months before Stephen was first diagnosed. Doctors initially diagnosed Stephen with constipation and prescribed laxatives, despite Andy's insistence that there was a risk of bowel cancer in the family; he was repeatedly told that teenagers were too young to have the illness. In his final interview, to the ''Daily Mail'', Sutton confessed that he had a degree of "anger" towards the amount of time taken for his cancer diagnosis, but would not lament it.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephen Sutton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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