Blyth teenager Ryan Office has survived brain surgery not once but twice - and now, as he gets back to normal life following a heartbreaking cancer relapse, he's received a special award for bravery.
Ryan, 14, was first diagnosed with a brain tumour aged 11 at the beginning of 2020. After surgery and then three months in the US - during the Covid-19 lockdown - for specialist proton beam therapy, in February 2021 the worst happened and his cancer returned.
Now, after 12 months more treatment and a second recovery, he is back to health - though will live with epilepsy for the rest of his life. To mark his bravery through two years of treatment, he has been awarded a Cancer Research UK Children & Young People Star Award.
