20 h. ago Girl, six, dies from brain tumour after symptoms were dismissed as 'lazy eye'

Heartbroken mum Elysee Cook, 30, from Leeds, is warning parents of the symptoms of a rare brain tumour, hoping other families can get an earlier diagnosis than her daughter Octavia

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20 h. ago Young girl died after brain tumour dismissed by doctor as 'lazy eye'

Octavia Cook, who was born premature at 29 weeks, was just three-years-old when her mum noticed her eyes were beginning to drift.

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66 h. ago Boy, 6, dies after blurry vision turned out to a brain tumour... optician dismissed symptoms

A young boy died just months after doctors initially dismissed his brain tumour as term-time tiredness and exhaustion from after school clubs.

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3 d. ago Scots farmer thought back pains were from work before shock brain tumour diagnosis

Richard Gospel, 44, started experiencing pins and needles in his back of head and shooting pains in 2023.

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3 d. ago Tragedy as boy, 6, dies from brain tumour in 'every parent's worst nightmare'

Tay Kurtul, from Broughton Astley, Leicestershire, experienced tummy ache, tiredness and heightened emotions, symptoms initially put down to exhaustion from after-school clubs

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3 d. ago Fit and healthy young woman, 28, unknowingly lived with brain tumour for 15 YEARS

A woman from Boston in the US discovered by chance that she had a tumour growing on her brain while on a plane.

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3 d. ago Mum diagnosed with brain tumour after dismissing symptom for 20 years

Nikita Sterling was diagnosed with a ‘large’ meningioma, which doctors suspect ‘could have been growing for 20 years’

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4 d. ago Davina McCall's emotional words to partner as she opens up on 'exhausting' health battle

Davina McCall opened up about the challenges in her brain tumour journey, which included an emotional conversation with her partner Michael Douglas

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4 d. ago Davina McCall admits she was 'terrified of dying' before her brain tumour diagnosis after family loss

Davina revealed that her parents and sister died quite young, but she's no longer terrified of her own death after her benign brain tumour

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4 d. ago Davina McCall fears 'she might not make it' before heartbreaking plea to partner

Davina McCall, who underwent surgery after being diagnosed with a benign brain tumour, admitted that she thought she "might not make it" as she opened up about a pressing lifelong fear

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4 d. ago Davina McCall reveals 'terrifying' thoughts about death after brain tumour surgery

TV host and podcaster Davina McCall has overcome a brain tumour and is bouncing back in style this year, but admits that while she's terrified of dying, she had 'come to terms' with it

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4 d. ago Davina McCall says she has been ‘terrified of dying my whole life’

The 57-year-old had surgery to remove a benign brain tumour last year.

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4 d. ago British grandmother stranded in Turkish hospital is warned complete paralysis is 'best case scenario' after brain tumour deteriorated during family holiday

Gill Taylor-Scarth had been on a 'big family holiday' in the resort town of Fethiye, Turkey, before falling ill on August 23.

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4 d. ago Warning after mum’s brain tumour symptoms dismissed as migraines

Nikita Sterling was diagnosed with a ‘large’ meningioma, which doctors suspect ‘could have been growing for 20 years’

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5 d. ago Surgeons warn granny in Turkey she will be paralyzed in terrifying brain tumour twist

Gill Taylor-Scarth was told she needs an operation but the best outcome she can look forward to is total paralysis if all goes to plan.

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5 d. ago The common contraceptive that can raise your risk of a brain tumour: Ruth fears 'ticking timebomb' happened to her

Ruth Hart was putting on her make-up one morning in March 2021 before heading to work, when she noticed something odd.

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6 d. ago Nan stranded in Turkey told complete paralysis is 'best case scenario'

Doctors in Turkey have told Gill Taylor-Scarth, 56, that they need to operate on her brain tumour after she rapidly deteriorated while on a "big family holiday" in the resort town of Hisaronu

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6 d. ago Counting down to zero: the final warning from a climate diplomat

Before Peter Betts died in 2023, he wanted to pass on what he had learned over many years of negotiating at Cops – including how Paris 2015 was saved at the last bellOn 15 March 2022, I was on a video call with a dear friend when I experienced a twitching on the left-hand side of my face and a slurring of my speech. My wife, Fiona, took me to hospital because we both thought I was having a stroke, and I spent the journey in the car adjusting to my probable death. Interestingly, I did not feel fear or anger; only sadness and disappointment that it was all going to end sooner than I had expected. I survived: but six days later, we learned that the cause of my condition was a particularly aggressive form of brain tumour called a glioblastoma.Since then I have read a number of accounts written by cancer sufferers. Many of them start with an uncertain diagnosis, often with a reasonable percentage chance of survival. But unlike these accounts it was absolutely clear that the tumour would ...

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8 d. ago I had electric shock treatment in the 1960s. Now I want to know why | Ask Annalisa Barbieri

You’re courageous to be facing up to this trauma. It’s time to empower yourself and explore your life storyI am 83, and my life seems to have been mostly happy. But after a year at art college, I sort of disintegrated and was sent to a mental hospital after I had tried to kill myself several times. My best explanation is that life was too difficult and painful. But why?In the hospital I had 15 electric shock treatments. After the first one I didn’t recognise my mum. I had a blinding headache, and the fear of never waking up was strong. I was given antipsychotic drugs and sedatives. I caused a lot of worry to my parents, but I couldn’t “pull myself together”. Looking back, I see myself as a caring person who helped the confused and unhappy ladies who were locked away in that massive old mental hospital, where, in a way, I felt at home. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago ‘My daughter’s brain tumour isolated her at school, I wish other parents knew’

Camille would be left out of birthday parties and isolated by her peers as time went on

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