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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Helena Vesty

'The tumour has stolen Indie’s childhood' - Parents praise new brain tumour research centre after horrendous diagnosis

Two careful parents took their four-year-old, Indie Thomas, to hospital thinking she was being troubled by a sick bug like any other little one but were given a life-changing brain tumour diagnosis.

Now, Indie’s parents are praising the development of a vital new brain tumour research centre. They hope that it will help their daughter and other brave children who are suffering from the deadliest of all childhood cancers, for which there currently is no cure.

Doctors made the horrifying discovery that Indie had an inoperable brain tumour, leaving her sick, incontinent and unable to walk properly. Now six-years-old, Indie is on chemotherapy that is making her ill, but her heartbroken parents have no other option as the savage tumour has taken all the sight in one eye and half the sight in her other.

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