A mum-of-two who travelled to Turkey for a dental check-up only to discover she had a brain tumour has been given a devastating diagnosis.
Lisa Robinson, 44, went alone to Antalya on the Southern coast last month for what she thought would be a routine cosmetic procedure consultation.
While there, she lost her balance and began acting like she was "drunk" - and her dentist called for urgent medical help before she was rushed to hospital.
An emergency 13-hour operation followed as doctors found she had a lethal brain tumour.
Now she has been told the shattering news that she has "incurable" cancer, reports Chronicle Live.
Since returned to the UK, Lisa, from Consett, County Durham, found out that she had Stage 4 cancer.
She confirmed it is "incurable but treatable" as she begins her first round of radiotherapy to prolong her life.
"My cancer will never go away," Lisa said.
"It is Stage 4. I can't do anything about it other than being positive and living day by day. That's all I have control of.
"All I keep thinking is that I can't dwell on it, I have got to live with it. There are times when I think, 'you were so close to death and you have been given a chance, so use that chance to make the best of it you can.'
"There are still cancerous cells within my brain so the treatment is to minimise their size. They say the cancer is aggressive and fast growing."
Her MRI scan in February located Glioblastoma - an aggressive brain tumour the size of a "clenched fist".
The mother-of-two was then taken for the critical surgery and was given just a 25 per cent chance of survival.
She pulled through after surgeons halted a bleed on her brain, and got rid of most of the growth.
Whilst Lisa felt "elated" after waking up, she was then given a £55,000 bill from her health insurer, Axa Partners, who refused to fund her treatment.
Lisa said last week: “I just feel so frustrated. I’m a 44-year-old, and my life has changed in three weeks.
“Initially I thought, ‘This is a bit OTT. Why do I need to go to another hospital for?’
“I definitely didn’t think for one minute that it would be cancer. But last night I was told that the tumour was stage four, untreatable.
She added: “My family had been aware of this also while they were in Turkey, but they were told not to disclose it because it could cause me additional distress.”
