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Sebastian McCormick & Nisha Mal

'In the shortest space of time, our whole world turned upside down' Woman's eye squint turned out to be brain tumour

A brave woman has told her cancer story to mark Brain Tumour Awareness Month. Naomi Savage was just four-years-old when doctors diagnosed her with a brain tumour.

Her mother Lucy, who worked as a nurse, noticed that her daughter's right eye used to squint and that she had a slight tremor in her right hand and leg. To be on the safe side she took Naomi to A&E where they did a CT scan.

It was then, in 2007 that she was diagnosed with a grade 3 ependymoma brain tumour. Speaking exclusively to Yorkshire Live, Lucy said: "In the shortest space of time, our whole world turned upside down, but we were mercifully shrouded in the protective cotton wool of shock.

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