article_snippet.sent: Dr Wilson, clinical director for child health at Southampton General Hospital, claimed the chemotherapy was essential to reduce the chances of the five-year-old’s cancer returning.
article_snippet.sent: Last month, four months after the proton treatment ended, the family said scans showed ‘no evidence’ of the tumour.
article_snippet.sent: the family then went to Prague for proton beam therapy, and now say there is 'no evidence' of a tumour .
article_snippet.sent: Dr Wilson was eventually given radiotherapy in the form of proton beam therapy in the Czech Republic, but his parents said the chemotherapy was not needed.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Wilson said there was a risk that tiny cancerous cells remained around the tumour site after the surgery in Southampton, and that chemotherapy and radiotherapy were required to treat tiny cancerous cells to offer the best possible chance that the cancer would not return.
highlights_snippet.sent: Dr Wilson claims chemotherapy was essential to reduce chances of five-year-old’s cancer returning .
  