Youngster Keane Meyers' wait for a lifesaving bone marrow transplant will be over tomorrow when he receives one from a donor from America.

The six-year-old, from Lacock, is at Bristol Children’s Hospital after being diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoblastic Lymphoma in 2006.

The marrow is being shipped over to Bristol this week where it will be cleaned before Keane’s surgery. He will then be kept in isolation for 28 days after the transplant, as his immune system will be low.

Despite the gruelling chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions Keane has had since he was admitted to the hospital last Friday he has stayed positive according to his parents Chris and Kate Meyers, both 33.

His proud father said: “I’m so proud of him. It amazes us how he keeps smiling all the time that is what keeps us going.

“He is such a chirpy, happy, little boy and we just think he is so brave.

“He has matured a lot of the past year since he was diagnosed and people are always thinking he is about eight or nine-years-old.”

Keane has been busying himself during his stay in hospital by taking part in creative activities and catching up on the schoolwork he has missed with a teacher who comes in to see him and the other children each day.

The bright year two pupil, who went to Shaw school before he was diagnosed with the cancer, has made plenty of friends on the bone marrow transplant ward and knows just how to cheer them up when they are down.

Mr Meyers, who looks after Keane’s younger sister Karly, five, while his wife is their son’s full-time carer, said: “He has made so many friends there and when ever anybody is said he puts a smile on their face because he is so cheerful.

“He even puts a smile on the nurses’ faces sometimes even playing practical jokes on them.”

His parents would like to thank their family and friends and Mr Meyers’ employer Fujitsu based in Bristol for being supportive during Keane’s treatment.