Chinese netizens embrace eight-year-old US boy who has rare cancer

Undated file photo of eight-year-old Dorian Murray of Westerly, Rhode Island, in the United States. [Photo/china.org.cn]

Internet users in China and across the world are helping an 8-year-old boy with cancer realize his dream of being famous.

Dorian Murray, of Westerly, Rhode Island, in the United States, has been receiving many good wishes and comforting messages from Chinese netizens in recent days, including well-wishers standing on the Great Wall near Beijing holding signs with words "#D-Strong" and "You are very famous in China".

This is what Dorian has been dreaming about -- being famous in China and seeing the Great Wall, which he called "the bridge" that people walk on.

Dorian has been fighting rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare pediatric cancer, since he was 4. The disease was once controlled after a series of painful treatments, but in early January, doctors found the cancer cells had spread to his spinal cord and brain, and the family decided to stop the treatments.