Charlotte Carrington before treatment. (Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity/Clare Carrington via SWNS) By Jake Meeus-Jones via SWNS A little girl was diagnosed with a brain tumor after she started throwing up sporadically. Charlotte Carrington, seven, was diagnosed with a pilocytic astrocytoma tumor when she couldn't stop being sick.
After being blue-lighted to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), Charlotte underwent a 10-hour operation to remove the benign tumor aged just four. Charlotte's parents, Clare, 40, and Scott, 40, were told there was just a five per cent chance of the tumor returning but six months later scans showed it had grown back. Charlotte underwent 16 months of chemotherapy and she is now stable and able to return to normal life.
She and her family are now planning to run the RBC Race for the Kids on October 12, 2024 to raise money towards building the new world-leading Children's Cancer Centre at GOSH. Clare, a finance worker, from Romford, Essex, said: "Everything is good at the moment. "The last scan was stable and you don't want to say your life is back to normal, but it has been.
"Suddenly it's not part of our lives, you're not constantly worrying. "She's back at school full-time and like every other seven-year-old. "Every time we've had a scan, our odds have improved.
"Hopefully it's behind us now - it's a very surreal feeling to be normal again. "It does change you as a person." Charlotte's symptoms began in the Easter of 2021 when she s.
