Overview

• A persistent lazy eye, dribbling and headaches spotted in March 2024 led to referral and an MRI that confirmed a medulloblastoma.
• Specialists at John Radcliffe Hospital performed two brain surgeries totaling more than 23 hours, removing about 90% of the tumour.
• Before therapy began, doctors harvested his sperm to preserve future fertility, and he then received proton beam radiotherapy at UCLH followed by nine months of chemotherapy.
• The operations left lasting right-side impairment; he now uses a wheelchair and is relearning tasks with his left hand while continuing physiotherapy.
• His mother has been fundraising for Brain Tumour Research, which highlights that roughly 1% of national cancer research funding goes to brain tumours.