'Nursery noticed my boy was walking strangely - the diagnosis was devastating'

'Nursery noticed my boy was walking strangely - the diagnosis was devastating' View 5 Images

A little boy has been diagnosed with a rare brain cancer after he was spotted 'walking unsteadily' at nursery. Four-year-old Raffi Starkowitz was at nursery when he suddenly began feeling unsteady on his feet and leaning to one side in March 2025.

His parents Neil, 47, and Nicky, 46, took him to A&E and an emergency MRI scan showed he had a mass on his brain. The tot underwent a 10-hour operation to remove it at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Raffi was diagnosed with a group 3 large cell anaplastic medulloblastoma - a rare and aggressive brain cancer - and he underwent multiple rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. While Raffi was going through treatment his mum Nicky was diagnosed with stag