The boy who battled a brain tumour
Sacha’s son David had a massive brain tumour. What she didn’t know is that Britian has one of the lowest survival rates in Europe.
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Is that cancer, Mum?” 11-year-old David Langton-Gilks asked his mother, Sacha, as he stared at the picture of his brain showing a massive tumour the size of the base of a wine glass at the back of his head. “Oh my God,” Sacha remembers thinking, “what am I supposed to say? How can you remove a tumour that size from my child’s brain without killing him or turning him into a vegetable? Do I have to answer him – can’t I leave it to the experts or his dad?”
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Accessed from the Times Online website here on Wednesday 19th May 2010