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Sue was diagnosed May 1st 2015 Glioblastoma Multiforme Grade 4 brain tumour.  This is and was a death sentence.  Prior to diagnosis, Sue had already beaten two completely isolated tumours, one on the left optic nerve, the other in her right breast.  She went through three successive years of tumours, the GBM4 killing her after 8 months, but not before it reduced her from running eleven Great North Runs to being bedridden and in a dire state.  Sue died peacefully on Friday 29th January 2016 after a horrible and debilitating illness and its concomitant radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Brain tumours and particularly GBM4 are so underfunded and due to the blood brain barrier, drug intervention is very limited.  Unlike cancers in other parts of the body, the brain when attacked by cancer poses extreme problems with mobility and sensory and cognitive function so that the patient becomes totally dependant over time.  I so wish that there had been sufficient research to help Sue, but her treatment was palliative from day one.

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