Charity event thanks medics.A TEENAGER is planning a fundraising event to thank those who saved her. Charlotte Lee began having headaches, dizzy spells and vomiting in 2007. But doctors put the problems down to hormonal issues or a virus. Her parents, Joan and Kevin, made several visits to doctors and said they would like a second opinion. In August 2007, Charlotte, then 13, was again ill so they took her to accident and emergency at Newcastle General Hospital. An MRI 1. (application) MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2. MRI - Measurement Requirements and Interface. scan found she had a medulloblastoma, an aggressive form of brain tumour Noun 1. brain tumour - a tumor in the brain brain tumor neoplasm, tumor, tumour - an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose glioblastoma, spongioblastoma - a fast-growing malignant brain tumor composed of spongioblasts; nearly always . Within 24 hours she was operated on. Charlotte, known to family and friends as Charliie, then had radiotherapy and chemotherapy before a scan last November gave her the all-clear. Now Charliie, 15, whose parents run a bed and breakfast at Stone Cottage near Ponteland, is holding an auction night to raise funds for the children's cancer unit at Newcastle's RVI RVI Radio Vlaanderen Internationaal (public broadcaster of the Flemish Community in Belgium) RVI Remote Visual Inspection RVI Renault Vehicules Industriels RVI Residual Value Insurance RVI Reverse Interrupt and research into medulloblastoma. It will be at The Badger, near Ponteland, on Friday, September 25, at 7pm. |
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