CORDELIA Taylor has had a quarter of her brain removed but she is still with us, more than four years after being told the cancer she had would kill her within 18 months.
But to Cordelia, it’s her seven-year-old daughter Lolita Oakes who is “phenomenal”.
Lolita and her best friend Juliet Deilinger, also seven, ran a full marathon distance over the course a week last month.
It came after Cordelia, from Kentish Town, North London, was told in June that her cancer was back – and the new tumour was aggressive and inoperable.
She is hoping to self-fund a private biopsy and potential targeted treatment of the tumour, which inspired Loli’s bid to raise money.