Tag: family

Ramona Read was just nine-years-old when she was diagnosed with a low-grade pilocytic astrocytoma in 2021. Her mum, Vicky, shares their story ahead of their appearance on Channel 4’s The Dog House – where families are matched with dogs who hope to find their forever home.

Namrata and Bhavesh Pandya, from Harrow, are calling for more research into DIPG brain tumours

James was first diagnosed with a brain tumour after having a seizure in 2018. Since then, he has had two awake craniotomies and a string of treatment types. Here, he shares his story on how he has navigated the uncertainty which came with it all.

A family has shared how they are preparing themselves, including their teenage children, for losing their father after he was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour.

A daughter who cared for her mum after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour is taking on a sponsored skydive to raise money for The Brain Tumour Charity to help fund vital research to find a cure for the disease.

A mum who was diagnosed with a brain tumour is taking on a fun run with her family to help find a cure for the disease.

A dad says his career in the British Army gave him the coping mechanisms to manage a terminal brain tumour diagnosis alongside the birth of his second child.

A family is calling for greater awareness of the disease amongst the medical community after their son’s brain tumour was undiagnosed for nearly a decade.

A mum says her brain tumour went undiagnosed and blamed on anxiety until she saw someone with the same symptoms on Channel 4’s ‘First Dates’.

A dad with a terminal brain tumour says losing his driving license was incredibly difficult as it took away his independence and role in the family.

A mum is living with the awful uncertainty of not knowing what tumour type her teenage daughter has despite several surgeries, ongoing treatment and two recurrences.

Laura Hobbs lost her 72-year-old dad to an aggressive brain tumour just 25 days after having symptoms the family originally thought were a reaction to the Covid vaccination.

A woman who was diagnosed with a brain tumour less than two years after losing her mum to the disease is encouraging others to live life by seizing the day.

A pregnant mum-of-three, who feared that she would never see the face of her unborn son as a brain tumour was crushing her optic nerve, is fundraising to find a cure for the disease.

A family spent the pandemic making memories with their four-year-old son who lost his life just a few months later to one of the most aggressive brain tumours his doctors had ever seen.

An adventurous couple who had just spent two months of their retirement in Australia and New Zealand returned home just ahead of the Covid pandemic to receive a shock brain tumour diagnosis.

Rhys Holmes, 31 from Newport in South Wales, spent his childhood dreaming of playing football before his young hopes were dashed when he started having symptoms of what would be diagnosed as a brain tumour.

The family of a young boy who had proton beam therapy following his brain tumour diagnosis have said that the pandemic actually helped with Noah’s recovery.

A husband has shared the grief he and their two children have experienced since losing his wife to a brain tumour just three months after her diagnosis.

A grieving sister says she will spend the rest of her life raising funds to find a cure for brain tumours after her sister died from the disease just three months after her diagnosis.

An ambitious young woman has got back to the career she loves having been diagnosed with a brain tumour three years ago.

A daughter whose beloved dad first had symptoms on her wedding day of the incurable brain tumour which took his life has climbed Mount Snowdon for The Brain Tumour Charity.

A daughter has shared how her dad positively inspired her after he was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour a week before their joint 18th and 50th birthdays.

A family is participating in a virtual online balloon race to raise funds to help find a cure for brain tumours after losing their beloved relative, Julie Fisher, to the disease.