A MANCHESTER university student has told how he lost half of his immediate family - his dad and two of his brothers to brain cancer in just seven years.
Seb Hughes, 20, spoke of his 'tremendous struggle' after the deaths of his dad, Ian, and brothers Milo and Oscar, and called for more funding for research into deadly tumours.
Milo, who was five, died in May, 2021. His tragic passing came a year after the death of their dad, also from brain cancer.
Mr Hughes, a marketing director, was 49 Milo was diagnosed with multiple tumours just a few days after he was laid to rest.
Milo was born after their brother, nine-year-old Oscar, passed away from a brain tumour in May 2014.
The three family tragedies during the brothers' childhoods left Seb, his other brother Lucas and their mum, Marie, devastated.
But now Seb is channelling his and his family's heartbreak into action - raising money for a charity set up in his brother Oscar's name to help find breakthroughs in the treatment of the cancer that robbed him of his dad and brothers far too soon - and help other families going through the same turmoil.
OSCAR's Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity supports and cares for children facing brain tumours and their families.
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