“It’s been extremely gruelling,” his mother Rachael Hepner said. The Mt Archer family spent nine months living in Brisbane alongside Mr Hepner as he underwent a heavy course of chemotherapy. “That was pretty massive,” Mrs Hepner said. Mr Hepner was then told the cancer had returned with nodules found on his lungs. He underwent more surgery before doctors discovered late last year the cancer had spread to both his thigh bones. “He did do two rounds of chemo, lost his hair again and was quite unwell,” Mrs Hepner said. “In November, he completed two weeks of radiation and then ...