The family of a 12-year-old girl who was diagnosed with a deadly brain tumour after a trip to the opticians are desperately trying to raise £200,000 for life-saving treatment abroad 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.
She 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 to remove the mass at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre on September 3.
But surgeons could only remove 80 per cent of the tumour because taking any more would leave the schoolgirl at risk of having a stroke. Grace went through several courses of radiotherapy and chemotherapy but a scan revealed the tumour had grown back while a second had started to develop.
