Laura Knight, a pretty teenager, who enjoys watching Eastenders, listening to music and the occasional McDonald’s McChicken sandwich, was diagnosed in September 2003 with Ependymoma.
Laura had an operation soon after being diagnosed to remove the tumour at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford . Laura has had tremendous support from her parents, sisters – Gemma and Katie – together with family and friends throughout this terrifying ordeal. Laura was worried in case her friends at school treated her differently because she has had a brain tumour but she need not have worried, her school friends were all very supportive.
The pictures above show before and after she had her head shaved. She has raised £5,430.46 to help us continue with our research to find a cure for this devastating disease which kills more children each year than meningitis. Laura is currently at college studying childcare