'They didn’t even give my daughter a chance': Miracle baby with rare brain stem tumour beats the odds to survive
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SINGAPORE - Given the aggressive cancer tumour located at her brain stem, little E should have died within weeks of her birth. Instead, the girl, who is now two years old, is not just alive but also well and behaving like any other toddler her age. Doctors a'They didn’t even give my daughter a chance': Miracle baby with rare brain stem tumour beats the odds to survive
SINGAPORE - Given the aggressive cancer tumour located at her brain stem, little E should have died within weeks of her birth. Instead, the girl, who is now two years old, is not just alive but also well and behaving like any other toddler her age. Doctors at the National University Hospital (NUH) say she is truly a miracle baby. While her parents do not want her to be identified, E may well be the only child in the world to survive an aggressive congenital cancer in her brain stem. At the very least, she is the first such documented case, said Dr Vincent Nga, who heads neurosurgery at NUH. It is extremely rare for an infant to be born with a tumour in that highly critical part of the brain which controls all the body's major functions, such as the ability to move and even to breathe. The odds are one in 100 million. Her mother's pregnancy was normal, as was her birth in January 2022. But shortly after E was born, doctors knew she had a problem. She had difficulty swallowing on day one. Then the right side of her face drooped within days of her birth, as though she had suffered a stroke. Read more