A FAMILY who flew abroad with their son for potentially lifesaving cancer treatment will be returning to Mexico in August for a follow up scan and your help is needed to get them there.

Charlie Ilsley and his mum Toni and dad Mark from Emmer Green travelled to Mexico in June so their 13-year-old son could receive Immunotherapy treatment.

Toni hopes it will be the “third time lucky” for her son who was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, the most high-grade brain tumour found in children when he was eight years old.

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Charlie finished his treatment on Friday, July 10, and Toni said hospital staff gave Charlie a bag full of presents to mark the occasion.

The family is due to fly home this week (Thursday, July 16) where they will need to self-isolate.

Toni said Charlie is “perfectly well” and added: “He is excited to come home.

“We have been gone 4 weeks and he misses his mates so he’s glad to finish.”

Toni, her 31-year-old daughter Jess and Charlie will be returning to Mexico at the beginning of August so Charlie can have another scan to see if treatment has worked.

Toni explained Charlie had an MRI scan last week and the “results were really amazing”.

She said the doctor treating Charlie “can’t compare exactly because Charlie didn’t have a scan just before treatment, but the cancer has not grown”.

She explained the cancer looks “less solid” and “inflammation and fluid” suggests the Immunotherapy treatment is beginning to work.

She added: “He also said he wasn’t expecting to see anything major yet as it was too early.

“He expects it to start working in a week or so.

“He thinks on paper this is the most promising treatment.”

For the family to return to Mexico for Charlie’s next scan, they need to raise at least £4,000.

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The doctor treating Charlie has said if the scan results do not show what he wants, he can also give him another drug and so the family needs to continue fundraising.

Toni said: “Again I would like to thank all those who have supported Charlie.

“It's time to make the cancer suffer like it's made us suffer.”

She also gave a “special shout out” to family friend Claire “for everything she has done”.

Claire has been helping to raise money for Charlie’s treatment since she saw his plight on Channel 4’s Celebrity Bake Off.

If you would like to support the Chronicle’s campaign and help raise money for Charlie’s treatment visit the Facebook page ‘URGENT APPEAL! Charlie’s chance to kick cancer’ or click here.