Alex

Brain Tumour Survivor

Alex with his family moved to Adelaide in 2007 to start a new life in sunny Australia. Soon after arriving here from Ireland Alex started having petit mal seizures and underwent testing for epilepsy. The EEG confirmed it was not epilepsy, the doctors were already suspecting a brain tumour which the subsequent MRI confirmed.

At six years of age, Alex was diagnosed with a Grade 2 astrocytoma tumor. Once the seizures had started it only took doctors three weeks to diagnose Alex brain tumour, the family know this helped save his life and ensure there was a swift and full recovery.

There is no known cause for Brain Tumours and as Alex is one of a set of twins, who knows why it was Alex?

Alex had two neurosurgical procedures to remove the entire tumour and had four titanium plates implanted. Alex an avid book worm can once again today enjoy his reading and look forward to his next Zak Power adventure.

Now eight years old and tumour free Alex is enjoying his saved life through neurosurgery and his new life in Australia with his two brothers and twin sister.

Brain cancer is one of the few cancers, which occur in children, with 120 new cases a year among children in Australia.