@TheresaWraith is an inspirational Mum of 3 living in West Yorkshire.
She was first diagnosed with a brain tumour (low grade glioma) in 2006 following a seizure. She had two surgeries (2006/2016) and continued her life working as a special needs teacher.
In March of this year she discovered her tumour had regrown as a grade 4 astrocytoma and she had her 3rd surgery. Since then she’s had 6 weeks of combined radiotherapy/chemotherapy and will have ongoing chemotherapy until January.
During her most recent surgery at the LGI in Leeds she was lucky enough to be operated on using a charity funded new technology where surgeons can produce high quality images of tumours in real-time. This means that remote pathologist experts can make a quicker and more accurate diagnosis during surgery and surgeons can remove as much of the tumour as possible with minimal damage to healthy cells surrounding it. Leeds is the fist trust in the country to have this technology available to support better outcomes for patients.
As a result of this, her fighting spirit and the excellent care she’s received her first scan since radiotherapy is positive and shows improvement. Her surgeon @LeedsNeuro stated that she would not have been well enough to receive radiotherapy had the surgery not have been so successful.
Please click follow the link and read more about her story and her son’s efforts to raise money so that more people can access technologies such as this and so that brain tumour patients can have better outcomes.
@BrainTumourOrg
https://t.co/PVBoYCsnMA
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