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Gemma Ryder

Brave Scot with 'months' to live shares touching terminal brain tumour story in BBC film

A Scots man who has been told he has just 'months' to live is to share his touching story in a new BBC Scotland film about his terminal brain tumour.

Gordon Shaw, a 41-year-old cancer patient from Leith in Edinburgh, first noticed something was wrong in 2012 and was later diagnosed with astrocytoma - a tumour that can grow slowly but can also be very aggressive.

But just a few months ago the comic book artist was given a dire prognosis by medics that they don't expect to have much more time left now that he has an aggressive tumour with no treatment options available.

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