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An Antiques Roadshow expert has told how she "would have been dead within months" if she ignored her brain tumour symptoms. Theo Burrell, 37, was diagnosed with a grade four brain tumour, called a gliobastoma, in June 2022. Prior to her diagnosis, the mum-of-one had spent six months suffering from migraines, poor vision and nausea. When she eventually took herself to A&E, a CT scan revealed a mass growing inside her skull. She soon underwent surgery to remove 90 per cent of the tumour and was told she would have between a year and 18 months to live.

An Antiques Roadshow expert has told how she "would have been dead within months" if she ignored her brain tumour symptoms. Theo Burrell, 37, was diagnosed with a grade four brain tumour , called a gliobastoma, in June 2022. Prior to her diagnosis, the mum-of-one had spent six months suffering from migraines, poor vision and nausea. When she eventually took herself to A&E, a CT scan revealed a mass growing inside her skull.

She soon underwent surgery to remove 90 per cent of the tumour and was told she would have between a year and 18 months to live. Theo, from East Lothian, told our sister title, Edinburgh Live: "The initial diagnosis was a huge shock. During Christmas 2021, I started getting ill. I got car sick during a journey, which was strange because I never got carsick. "I was also having migraines which made me really sick, and I was having problems with my vision. My son, Jonah, was one-year-old at the time and had recently started nursery so I thought I may have picked up a stomach bu

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