“Mummy, I don’t want you to get cancer anymore.”

That was the plaintive plea from eight-year-old Aston Wells after doctors gave his mother her latest all-clear.

But when worried Kerena Wells was told she might need her breast removed, her brave little son took matters into his own hands.

Determined to give his mum’s cancer the boot once and for all, Aston decided to make and sell special bracelets with all his hard-earned profits donated to cancer research.

His mother Kerena Wells, 44, of Woodingdean, was first diagnosed with breast cancer eight years ago, meaning she had to go through chemotherapy while Aston was a baby.

When the disease returned in 2010, Kerena was forced to undergo a mastectomy to stop it spreading.

And last month she found out she needed a genes test to decide whether her remaining healthy breast should be removed too.

 

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Kerena said: “Aston’s lived with my illness for his whole life really, and I think he’s sick of it.

“He hears about it on the TV all the time and it really worries him.

“Recently he was crying and saying he didn’t want me to get cancer anymore. It was heartbreaking.”

But rather than feeling sorry for himself, the Rudyard Kipling School pupil decided to help.

The eight-year-old found beads in his house and started stringing them together as colourful bracelets to sell to his schoolmates.

Kerena said: “He suddenly told me he wanted to make these bracelets to help stop my cancer coming back.

“I told him not be daft but he wouldn’t take no for an answer.”

Aston’s bracelets are now doing a roaring trade with neighbours, friends, family and even a few of his teachers snapping them up.

Kerena has even been forced to pitch in to help her son produce enough bracelets to cope with demand.

She said: “He still does most of the work but I tie the knots because he has trouble with that.

“No one can quite believe that he’s done it all by himself. I just think he’s the most wonderful, thoughtful little boy.”