A young schoolgirl has stunned the medical by becoming the first person in the UK to win the battle against a rare form of cancer. Eleven-year-old Jeanie-May Cooke underwent pioneering treatment to beat Histiocytic Sarcoma, a cancer of the central nervous system.
Following a fight that lasted more than four years, Jeanie-May, from Cleethorpes, visited Sheffield Children's Hospital to meet her oncology doctor Dan Yeomanson, who is writing a medical paper on his brave patient, and have her Portacath removed which has been used for the access for drugs in her fight against leukaemia in 2017 and subsequent cancer.
Jeanie-May has undergone therapy involving a new drug called Trametinib, and has become the first person in the UK to overcome the aggressive form of cancer with which she was diagnosed in 2018. Earlier that year she had to have most of her right leg amputated because of complications. She has a wheelchair to help her get around school where she has lots of friends.
