 tumour was discovered. Now, after months of treatment, she has joined calls for increased investment in brain tumour research. Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer, according to charity Brain Tumour Research. But just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to the disease. Ms Burrell, whose son Jonah was just one when she was diagnosed last summer, told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme about her experience. "I started to get ill in the winter of 2021 and I wasn't diagnosed until the June of 2022, so [I had] five or six months of increasingly worsening symptoms - headaches, sickness, problems with my vision, very, very pressurised pains in my head, migraines - the list went on. "And it wasn't until I went to A&E at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh that I was given the diagnosis. I had absolutely no idea it was coming, it was a huge shock." The ceramics and glass expert with Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers in Edinburgh said she only learned the seriousness of her diagnosis the following day. Image source, Thoe Burrell Image caption, Ms Burrell was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour last summer "At first, I didn't quite realise what I was being told," the 36-year-old said. "The information in A&E was there was a 5m cancerous brain tumour in my head but it wasn't until the next day that I saw my surgeon and he explained that this was in fact incurable cancer." He told her she had glioblastoma, a fast-growing brain tumour which is one o){kind=link}
Antiques Roadshow expert Theo Burrell was just 35 when she was diagnosed with an incurable cancerous brain tumour.
For six months she had endured increasingly worsening symptoms but her GP could not pinpoint the cause of her debilitating migraines.
It was only when she was offered a scan at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary’s A&E that the 5cm (2in) tumour was discovered.
Now, after months of treatment, she has joined calls for increased investment in brain tumour research.
Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer, according to charity Brain Tumour Research.