A nine-year-old girl was saved by an optician who managed to spot a plum-sized brain tumor that had been missed by doctors six times.
A nine-year-old girl was saved by an optician who managed to spot a plum-sized brain tumor that had been missed by doctors six times.
Shanice Bailey was diagnosed with schwannoma, a rare tumor that was pressing her brain stem and had left her paralyzed. The girl was taken to GPs six times between September 2009 and January 2010 only to be told she had asthma.
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Brain tumors are the abnormal growth of brain cells that may be benign or metastatic. Brain tumors account for about 2.4% of all the tumor diagnosesandare most challenging due to their critically delicate location.
Brain tumors are the abnormal growth of brain cells that may be benign or metastatic. Brain tumors account for about 2.4% of all the tumor diagnosesandare most challenging due to their critically delicate location.
Shanice is now recovering at home. "If they hadn't have found the tumour she could have died because it was blocking fluid at the top of her spine," Laura Bailey told the Daily Mail.
Trevor Lawson, a spokesman for Brain Tumour UK said that such tumors were extremely rare in children and hence presented a challenge to doctors.
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