The life of a 3-year-old boy just got a whole lot brighter.

Mason Post-Bowers, 3, of Lehighton, is now cancer-free, much to the delight of his family.

Holley Henderson, Mason’s mother, said that Mason had a scan done last month, and the results showed that he is now cancer-free.

“I fell to my knees crying,” Henderson said. “He made me realize that you should live life to the fullest because honestly, nobody knows when your life’s going to end; you are not guaranteed tomorrow.”

Upon word that Mason was cancer-free, Henderson said she bought her son a race car to race next year at Snydersville.

“Hopefully, he’ll make the cut to race,” she said. “That’s something that Mason and his pop-pop will do together.”

Henderson said that Mason will have to go for one more scan next month to check that he’s growing and that nothing spread.

“He won’t have to get the nuclear medicine; it’s just going to be a regular scan,” she said. “It’s just to make sure on their (the doctors’) end they didn’t miss anything.”

Henderson explained what it was like when she shared the wonderful news with Mason.

“When I told Mason that he didn’t have to go through any more scans, he literally chanted, ‘I kicked cancer’s butt,’” she said. “He threw his arms up and shouted it.”

It’s been a stretch of good months for Mason, who was greeted with gifts from Santa Claus in December following a stop at the Lehighton Police Station.

Mason had a tumor on his one kidney, which was discovered when he was 3 months old.

Henderson said he had heart and throat surgery at Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and after his surgery they found the cancer. He had four rounds of chemo at the age of 3 months old.

Mason had been an inpatient at CHOP for a month, and was then transferred to The Children’s Cancer and Multipurpose Infusion Center at Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital in Allentown since it’s closer to home.

Henderson said it’s important for families who have a child with cancer to meet with each other so that they can have someone to talk with and vent to.

“I met three mothers, and we would walk around in the halls with the kids; we still connect to this day, and all three of them know he’s cancer-free,” she said. “You really get down watching all these kids not being able to play, and it really takes a toll on the parents as well.

“It is so cool to see all the others I talk to; it lifts your heart a little more and the belief that my kid’s going to get through it. It gives them definitely the hope and the security that they need just to kind of have that extra friend.”