Just ten days after his first birthday, Lucas Garcia-Batalla, from Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, was diagnosed with a grade 3 anaplastic ependymoma – a fast growing malignant tumour. Just ten days after his first birthday, Lucas Garcia-Batalla, from Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, was diagnosed with a grade 3 anaplastic ependymoma – a fast growing malignant tumour.