After surgery, chemo- and radio-therapy in Iran didn't work, the parents of a 13-year-old Iranian cancer patient took him to Turkey. Doctors there recommended bringing him to Sheba hospital in Israel.

Director of Sheba Medical Center Zeev Rothstein told Reuters the boy's "been suffering from the [advanced brain] tumour for more than a year. We are doing our best, in the knowledge that his chances are not very good."