TV’s Secret Life star gets cancer all-clear
A GIRL who became the surprise star of TV show Secret Life Of Five-Year-Olds has been treated for a cancerous tumour – which weighed more than she did when she was born.
Daisy Mason, seven, won the hearts of viewers of the Channel 4 show with her spirited attitude and was the first child in a wheelchair to be featured on the episode The Schoolgirl With Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy in the 2016 series.
But her mother revealed a 3lb fast-growing tumour was found in her adrenal gland earlier this year and she recently underwent a 9d-hour operation to remove it. After months of treatment, tests show she is now clear and back at school.
Her mother Lucy Mason, 37, of East Winch, Norfolk, said: “She’s doing really well since she had the operation to remove it.
“About three weeks ago she had a bone marrow test to see if it had spread, which came back clear, so she hasn’t needed to have chemo. She’s really been through it but she hasn’t changed a bit.
“She’s still in high spirits. We went swimming and kayaking at the weekend.”
Daisy was born nearly 12 weeks prematurely and diagnosed with quadriplegic cerebral palsy when she was nine months old.
Doctors said at the time that her condition would make it difficult for her to move her limbs and her development would not progress beyond that of a four-year-old.
But she has excelled and took part in the Channel 4 series which followed five-year-olds as they play and interact.
Last August she took part in a triathlon, and with help from father Adam, 32, she swam 150m, pushed herself 1km on her trike and wheeled 3km in her wheelchair.