A mum whose brain tumour has returned almost 20 years after she was first diagnosed says she “will do anything” to find a cure for the disease so she can be there for her four children. Emma Fox, 35, was first told she had an Oligodendroglioma - a primary central nervous system tumour - after having a seizure on the bus home from school.
Aged 17 at the time, the teenager had suffered with migraines and occasional seizures from a young age but they were put down to febrile convulsions. It was only after she had an MRI scan was she given the devastating diagnosis that there was a large mass on her brain and was rushed into emergency surgery.
Emma, from Gwynedd, said: "Because I had been suffering from the age of about three or four with migraines and illnesses I always knew that there was something wrong. I think I was diagnosed on September 23 or 24 and I was in the Walton Centre (a neurology hospital in Liverpool) within four days. So it was pretty quick.
