Antiques Roadshow’s Theo Burrell has been diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour at the age of 35. The Scottish expert received the heartbreaking news just one year after the birth of her first child.
She said: “Receiving my diagnosis, at the age of 35, when my son was just one year old, was devastating. Overnight everything had changed.
“Suddenly I’d gone from being a healthy person in the middle of my life with a new baby to having incurable cancer with maybe one or two years left to live.”
Since her diagnosis last year, Theo has undergone surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy to keep the cancer under control.
Devastatingly, she has been told that it will return.
Theo continued: “Although I continue to make the best of each day, my tumour will return and it will kill me. My care has been excellent and new advances in science have helped me so far.
“However, only by funding research into brain cancer can we get closer to a life-saving cure.”
She has now decided to “do something positive” and will run an auction in aid of The Brain Tumour Charity.
The online auction, ran by Lyon and Turnball, features donated lots including experience days, art and memorabilia.
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