Four-Year-Old Girl Makes Miraculous Recovery After Cancerous Tumours Vanish

A four-year-old girl, who had at least a dozen cancerous tumours and was only given weeks to live, has left doctors in shock after the tumours suddenly disappeared.

Pippa Cole, from Preston in the UK, was first diagnosed with a brain tumour when she was just one year old, and after more scans during the first three years of her life, doctors found seven tumours in her brain and another cluster on her spine.

Doctors told her parents Shell, 35 and Scott, 37, they could no longer do anything to help her fight the cancer. Doctors revealed Pippa has only weeks to live, and so, the couple tried to make their daughter’s final weeks as happy as possible such as making her a flower girl to their wedding and taking her on a family holiday to Disney World.

The family first noticed something was wrong with Pippa in July 2013 when she began vomiting every day for nine days, and when there was blood in her vomit, her parents decided to rush her to hospital.

When she had a CT scan, doctors discovered a tumour in her brain, and was taken to Manchester Children’s Hospital for further tests.

A few days later, Pippa underwent surgery to have the tumour removed, and after a year of chemotherapy, she was given the all clear in August 2014.

However, in January 2015, a routine scan found a new tumour, and Pippa had further surgery to remove it, but just 48 hours after the operation, scans revealed another tumour had grown in its place.

After a month, she underwent a third surgery, where doctors removed the tumour, but once again, just two days later, doctors found that she had three more tumours growing in her brain and a cluster on her spine.

At that point, the family prepared Pippa to have extensive chemotherapy, but by the end of last year, a new bigger tumour had appeared alongside the others, which had remained the same size.

Surgeons tried to perform another surgery, but told the family that Pippa was terminally ill, and had just weeks to live.

Upon hearing the news, Mrs Cole was heartbroken.

“Being told Pippa was terminal and had just weeks to live was heart breaking, it was the worst possible news.

“After all the surgery and chemotherapy, it seemed incredibly unfair that we were going to lose her.

“Every week we had with her from that moment seemed even more precious. We wanted to make Pippa’s last months the happiest of her life,” she said.

However, miraculously, by February 2016, doctors were surprised that the tumours had not grown any further, and by August, scans showed that the tumours had completely vanished.

Experts believe the unsuccessful radiotherapy that Pippa originally underwent in December 2015 had a delayed reaction, yet they are not certain why her cancer suddenly disappeared.

Mrs Cole was over the moon when she learned about the news.

“By July, we felt so lucky she had lived past doctors expectations and her scans in 2016 had been stable.

“Nothing could have prepared us for the news that all Pippa’s cancerous tumours had disappeared.

“We are still on cloud nine, it was only a few weeks ago and it still doesn’t feel real,” she said,

She said that Pippa has now started school like other children her age, despite some problems as she grows because of the radiotherapy on her spine. “It feels incredible to not have the constant worry of time running out with Pippa and we’re enjoying every minute of it,” she said.

Source: Dailymail.co.uk