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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Charlotte Penketh-King

Woman diagnosed with epilepsy actually had rare cancer

Brain Tumour Research/ SWNS

A woman has learned to speak Chinese after tests ahead of brain tumour surgery revealed she had good linguistic skills.

Nicola Clark, 45, was wrongly diagnosed with epilepsy in 2010 after she started suffering absence seizures.

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