Runaway mother to allow treatment of son if cancer returns Sally Roberts took her stand against treatment because of what she believed were the long-term risks. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA The mother who sparked a nationwide hunt after running away with her seven-year-old son to prevent him receiving cancer treatment has said she would permit the treatment if his cancer has returned. A high court judge had been due to make a ruling on whether Neon Roberts should undergo radiotherapy treatment after surgery on a brain tumour, but told a hearing in the Family Division in London on Saturday that he was not delivering the ruling because there had been "developments" in the condition of the child. After hearing arguments on Friday about whether doctors should start radiotherapy on the boy against the wishes of his mother, Sally, Mr Justice Bodey said Neon's case was being kept under review and a further hearing had been scheduled for 18 December. Roberts, originally from New Zealand, told the court on Friday she was taking a "principled" stand against treatment because of its long-term risks. However, in what would appear to be a change in her position, she was reported on Sunday night to have said she would allow doctors to perform the treatment if a 1cm mass shown on Neon's brain during an MRI scan on Friday turned out to be cancer. Roberts told the Times that, if the worst-case scenario was realised, she would consent to radiotherapy and chemotherapy for her son. "I don't think I will have a choice," she said. I was so hopeful that we could just get on with other, less harmful treatments. But I will be backed into a corner. Roberts has been fighting doctors' plans for Neon to undergo radiotherapy after a life-threatening medulloblastoma brain tumour was removed in October. "We went for a scan and they did see something," the Times quoted Roberts as saying. They weren't too sure what it was. Doctors are checking and we are hoping it's scar tissue or something else. When I saw a headline today saying Neon's cancer is back, it shocked me. That's not true because we just don't know. Police launched the hunt for her and Neon when they disappeared from Tiverton, in Devon, last Monday.