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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Eleanor Fleming

Toddler diagnosed with inoperable brain tumour before going blind ‘overnight’

A young girl diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour at just 17 months old, which left her almost entirely blind, has been hailed as a “superhero” by her parents.

Olivia Taylor, now nine, was diagnosed with an optic nerve glioma in January 2018, a slow-growing, typically benign brain tumour which forms around the nerves that carry information from the eye to the brain.

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