A family has been left devastated after a teen was told she has a brain tumour - just months after her step-mum was diagnosed with the exact same condition.
Tina Cranshaw, 51, was initially told she had suffered a stroke after her face drooped and her speech became slurred.
However, tests discovered a terminal brain tumour the size of a golf ball, with the Doncaster mum given just 12 months to live, Yorkshire Live reports.
In a tragic twist of fate, her step-daughter Daisy, 16, from Middlesbrough, was also diagnosed with a brain tumour just one year later.
Tina's colleagues first realised something was amiss when she attended an online meeting for the charity she works for.
Tina's colleagues first noticed something was wrong while she was attending an online video meeting for the charity she works for.
Daisy explained: "During the meeting, my step mum had the worst headache, and she could smell gas.
“She started slurring her words and her face drooped, so her colleagues called an ambulance."
Tina was then rushed to Doncaster Royal Infirmary.
Doctors initially thought she had suffered a stroke, but a CT scan revealed a shadow on her brain.
So, Tina, also mum to Theo, nine, Imogen, 28, and Abbie, 31, was sent to Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, for a further MRI scan.
Doctors were then able to confirm her devastating diagnosis.
Daisy said: “It was horrible. I was doing my mock GCSEs, so it was a really stressful time.
"I was so worried, I kept thinking: ‘This may be the last time I see my step mum’.”
On October 2, 2020, Tina underwent an operation to remove the tumour, which was the size of a golf ball.
But she was given the heartbreaking diagnosis that she only had between six and 12 months to live.
Daisy said her symptoms had started in February of the same year.
Her GP put her headaches down to stress and when she went to A&E, medics had told her she had a migraine.
It was only during a face-to-face appointment with her GP in September 2021 that she told him she had a blind spot on the left side of her eye.
On December 9, she had an emergency MRI scan which revealed a mass on her brain.
She was then referred to the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle, where her tumour was confirmed.
Luckily for Daisy, her tumour is non-life-threatening, but she said the news was still hard to take for the family.
She added: “It was the worst thing to hear, especially after seeing what my step-mum has gone through.
“Dad is gradually losing his wife, and I thought that he could also be losing me. It was horrible.
“Fortunately, they found that some of my brain tumour is dead, which is brilliant news.
“I need to have scans every three months, but I’ve been told it’s not life-threatening and they don’t need to operate yet.”
Daisy is walking 10,000 steps every day this month to raise money for Brain Tumour Research.
She said: “There is such a lack of research into this devastating disease and more needs to be done.
“Not everyone is as fortunate as me to not have to have any treatment immediately like my wonderful step mum.
“She’s my inspiration in doing this as she always makes me persevere in everything I do.”
