Looking pale but alert, this is little Ashya King yesterday after his first day of long-awaited cancer therapy. The five-year-old brain tumour patient, whose parents fought to secure proton beam treatment for him, underwent the first of 30 sessions of the therapy at a clinic in Prague. The session followed a week of tests after Ashya was flown to the Czech capital from Spain by private jet. Scroll down for video Hope: Ashya King after the first proton beam treatment on his brain tumor at the Proton Therapy Center in Prague, Czech Republic Concern: Naghmeh King waits by an ambulance as Ashya is transported to the Proton Therapy Centre yesterday
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Ashya King had first course of treatment for his brain tumour earlier today
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Five-year-old will now undergo further 29 sessions at Prague proton centre
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Czech doctors say 70-80 per cent of patients in Ashya's condition survive
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News comes 19 days after parents removed Ashya from an NHS hospital
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Sparked international manhunt after taking him from Southampton General Hospital without permission in bid to get specialist treatment oversees
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