A 12-year-old girl diagnosed with a brain tumour after a trip to the opticians has tragically died as her family battled to raise £200,000 for treatment not available on the NHS. Grace Kelly went to a Specsavers branch for a routine check-up when opticians discovered swelling behind her eyes in August last year.
The schoolgirl was referred to Leicester Royal Infirmary where an MRI scan discovered she had a glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) tumour the size of a 50p piece. Grace, of Oadby, Leics., underwent an eight-hour operation and several courses of radiotherapy and chemotherapy but a scan revealed the tumour had grown back.
Her devastated family then began trying to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds to fund pioneering treatment in Germany as she could not be treated in the UK. But today heartbroken mum Vanessa, 32, revealed their "brave and beautiful" daughter had lost her year-long battle with the disease.
