'I'm beaming again after brain tumour therapy gave me my life back'

A TEENAGER has told how pioneering treatment for a potentially fatal brain tumour has helped her lead a normal life again.

- Chris Riches

Eve Wilson was helped by the UK's first NHS proton beam therapy unit, which opened at Manchester's Christie Hospital in 2018 and has since treated more than 1,250 cancer patients.

PBT is a form of radiotherapy, but without X-rays. It uses high-energy protons and does not release energy until it hits the tumour doing less damage to surrounding tissue.

Eve, now 15, was just 10 when she was diagnosed with rare non-cancerous brain tumour craniopharyngioma in 2019.

She said: "I've never been looked after in a hospital as well as I was at The Christie.

"The staff made me feel comfortable and prepared, so I wasn't scared before treatment.

"If I felt unwell, the nurses would take care of me I'd also never had a health play specialist to look after me before.