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Her normally energetic and active 8-year-old had been vomiting constantly and losing a lot of weight. Then one day he suddenly collapsed and was rushed to Christchurch Hospital. “[He] ended up having an MRI and within an hour and a half he’d stopped breathing on us – that s how much the pressure [in his head] had built up. It was all systems go then.” The MRI revealed Connor had a medulloblastoma brain tumour – a common form of child cancer. The New Brighton boy was rushed into emergency surgery to relieve the pressure in his brain.
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Connor Duncan-Caley and his mother Karen Duncan-Caley at New Brighton Beach.