Worried first-time parents who took their five month old baby to the doctors for a cough were devastated to discover he had a brain tumour the size of a grapefruit. Little Oliver Swift was given just a two per cent chance of survival after professionals made the grim discovery, which left his parents Ashley and Charlene reeling.
Oliver, now five, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in January 2018, when Ashley and Charlene, from Bestwood in Nottingham, took him to see the GP for a cough. When they got there, the doctor noted a small lump on his head which they wanted to check out further, NottinghamshireLive reports.
He was referred to Queens Medical Centre (QMC), where brain scans revealed that what medics initially thought could be a skull fracture was actually a brain tumour the size of a grapefruit. At Oliver's age, it meant it was taking over the whole left side of his skull and was pushing his brain to the right.
