His mum Carly has, through necessity, become well versed in the realities of her son’s diagnosis: a grade 3 choroid plexus carcinoma. Mason was diagnosed with cancer for the first time in February 2024 and, after brain surgery and chemotherapy, was in remission for 15 months until last month, when a routine scan revealed that the tumour had returned. The first step was another brain surgery, with much uncertainty surrounding the operation, as surgeons would be operating through the same area as before. Amazingly, while patients are usually expected to spend the first 48 hours after major brain surgery largely sleeping, Mason was already up and walking with the physiotherapist the following morning. Mason and his mum Carly are travelling to Manchester for his next treatment (Image: Carly Mackenzie)Carly said: “I don’t know how he does it.