Brain tumour: Cancer Research UK on 'different types' in 2017 A young mum has been given just four months to live after headaches and eye discomfort led to a devastating diagnosis. Rachael Burns, 22, has been left “heartbroken” at the thought of leaving her one-year-old daughter behind after discovering she has an aggressive brain tumour . Symptoms started eight months ago and included severe headaches, a sore eye and dizzy spells.
However, doctors initially put this down to dehydrated eyes and she was left waiting months without answers. Rachael, from Belfast in Northern Ireland , recalled: “At the start they weren’t concerned enough to put through a referral to the hospital, so for months I wasn’t able to leave the house with my daughter because of these migraines.” Eventually she was given a CT scan which revealed a mass on her brain that was leaning on her central nervous system.
READ MORE: 'I thought I had heartburn but pain in the night turned into horror diagnosis' Rachael Burns with her partner Robert and their daughter Raeya (Image: Belfast Live) An MRI scan showed Rachael had something called a diffuse midline glioma brain tumour, which was inoperable. Speaking to Belfast Live , she said: “They said I would die if they even touched it so the only option for treatment at this point is radiotherapy for six weeks.” But now Rachael, who is mum to Raeya, has learned she does not have long left to live.
She said: “Until last week I had in my head all of .
