A MILITARY wife 'cried until she had no tears left' when she discovered her baby son was suffering with a brain tumour.

Brave Finlay Niles was diagnosed with the disease earlier this year and his doting mother has launched a fundraising campaign to help fund a cure.

Thankfully, doctors were able to remove the tumour following a 12-hour long procedure and the two-year-old is now free from cancer.

Now, his mother Ellys has revealed the trauma she and her infantry soldier husband Anthony went through after realising young Finlay had cancer.

Mrs Niles, of Reading, said: "It was February this year and Anthony had been flown home by the British Army, leaving his regiment in Iraq where they were training Iraqi forces for an upcoming assault to reclaim the city of Mosul.

"I began to have concerns about Finlay when he didn’t seem to be hitting the normal developmental milestones as [his older sister] Imogen had.

"His condition was deteriorating but I felt as if none of the health professionals believed me. Anthony tried to reassure me that everything was alright but now, here we were, being told that Finlay had a brain tumour.

"We had been rushed to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where Finlay underwent surgery on 20th February 2017. The 12 hours he was in theatre felt like a lifetime to us.

"It was five days until the tests confirmed the surgeon’s suspicion that the tumour was cancerous and, even worse, that only per cent of patients with this type of tumour lived beyond five years.

"We were in complete shock and I cried until I had no tears left. I tried to hang on to some hope and found consolation in the fact that it looked as if the tumour had started off low-grade before changing over time."

Finlay was finally able to return home from hospital in March and has since endured six months' worth of chemotherapy.

The youngster is on the mend and he will continue to have scans every three months as a precaution.

His doting mother added: "I need to stay positive for Finlay, he is not a statistic, he is my son and, for now at least, every single day he is getting better.

"He has come such a long way compared to how he was before the tumour was removed and, despite everything, he always has a huge smile on his face. Finlay is the most loving little boy and a true inspiration to us and everyone who meets him.

"He is our little soldier and continues to amaze us every day with his bravery and strength."

"It’s easy to sit back and think something like this won’t happen to you but it does, I am living proof of that, it has happened to our little boy.

"For this reason we all really do need to raise more funds and awareness to help fund the fight against brain tumours for all those amazing people, like Finlay, who are fighting."

Finlay's parents will battle The Great North Run this weekend to fundraise for Brain Tumour Research.

To donate visit https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Ellys-Niles