An 11-year-old girl from Wales has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain cancer and told she has 18 months to live, just months after she began complaining of headaches. Tiarna Mitchell from Trowbridge in Cardiff started complaining of headaches around four months ago and was originally taken to see her optician by her mum Stacey.
Tamara Lyons, Tiarna's aunt, said her niece wears prescription glasses and her family initially thought her headaches might mean she just needed a change in her prescription. However, after checking her over the optician told her mum Tiarna needed to go to hospital immediately.
They went to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, where Tiarna spent five weeks and underwent a number of scans and tests which saw her diagnosed with hydrocephalus - fluid on the brain. She was told she would need an operation, which doctors said was needed to determine what was causing her headaches.
