A devastated mum has told of the "random bad luck" her family suffered when her two daughters were both diagnosed with cancer eight years apart. Zoe Ardrey’s youngest daughter, Sarah, was diagnosed with bone cancer at the age of 11, then eight years later her eldest daughter, Katie, developed a brain tumour at the age of 25.
Both are now doing well after receiving treatment - including Katie whose surgery was performed by Dr Allan Friedman, the surgeon who operated on US senator Ted Kennedy’s brain tumour. The growth left a hole that took up nearly a quarter of her brain when medics removed it, Katie's shocked mum said.
Now aged 31, Katie lives in Florida and was a varsity athlete on a US scholarship when she was struck down with a malignant brain tumour the size of a baseball in March 2016. Sarah Ardrey is now aged 25 and "doing absolutely fine" after being treated for bone cancer at the age of just 11 in 2008.
