An impossible dilemma: What cancer do you want to die from?

LAURA Perkins is haunted by memories of her mum Joanna begging to die as tumours burst through her skin in her final days.

- By Hanna Geissler Health Editor

Five years before, Joanna was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, which spread to her liver in 2022. Meanwhile, doctors discovered another primary cancer growing on her tongue. Joanna had surgery to remove part of her tongue, then chemotherapy for the liver cancer.

She wanted to live as long as possible so her youngest grandson Teddy, now four, would remember her.

But the treatment left her weak and the op affected her ability to speak, her sight, hearing and balance.

Laura, 45, of Dulwich, south-east London, said: "All she could eat for months was soup with no bits. Even if it had a grain of salt, she would feel it on her throat.