Flo Turner, a “bright and beautiful” four-year-old girl, was swimming in the pool one afternoon when she complained of a headache. Just a year later, she died from a highly aggressive form of childhood brain cancer. The Newcastle girl was diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma in March 2023.
,” Turned said. “It was a heartbreaking diagnosis and everything was turned upside down ... all your hopes and dreams for your family are just shattered into pieces. “I remember waking up for a whole week every morning and feeling like my existence was caving in.” Turned said it was impossible at the time to comprehend the impact of it all. “My heart breaks not even for me, but for her, and all the things she is missing out on,” he said.
. Currently, the survival rate of childhood leukaemia is about 90 per cent, according to Children’s Cancer Institute. Experts say they hope the same can one day be said for