A HEARTBROKEN mum has told how her life "shattered into a million pieces" when her son was diagnosed with cancer. Rua McGlone was diagnosed with a grade four Astrocytoma, a type of cancer that can occur in the brain or spinal cord, in March of this year. The 25-year-old started noticing a weakness in his left leg in January of this year.
Mum Sinead said: "This gradually got worse and in early March, we went to the hospital. After sitting in A&E for three days, he was advised he had a spinal tumour and was admitted to hospital. "At the end of March he had a 6.
5 hour surgery to try to remove the tumour but it was unsuccessful. "Two months before Rua's 25th birthday he was diagnosed with a grade four Astrocytoma, which basically is an incurable spinal tumor which doesn’t react to Chemo." Rua recently completed 28 sessions of Radio therapy, in the hope it will shrink the tumour.
However, the family have been told that the young man has a "very rare and very aggressive" tumour and that is "really is just a matter of time." The family have looked into optional treatments both in Ireland and abroad, but treatment for the type of tumour that Rua has been diagnosed with is rare. Since there is no cure, the family have told how immunotherapy is their "last hope" to prolong Rua's life.
Immunotherapy is treatment that uses a person's own immune system to fight cancer . It can boost or change how the immune system works so it can find and attack cancer cells. Mum Sinead added: You make .
