A boy started secondary school and treatment for a brain tumour in the same week. Charlie Cox, 11, was diagnosed with grade 2 oligoastrocytoma aged just eight months.
He has faced countless hospital appointments and undergone a variety of treatments, including two brain surgeries and repeated chemotherapy. A scan in February revealed that Charlie had relapsed for a fifth time.
He left mum Kirsty Court, 35, in tears on his first day at Cheam High School, in Sutton, on Monday - just five days after he started treatment again. He began a trial at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton, a form of targeted therapy which will require him to take MEK inhibitors daily for two years, last Wednesday, August 31.
