There were some big winners at the 2023 ACM Awards tonight!
22.04.2023 - 20:49 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A dad survived his cancer long enough to have a baby when a tumour grew outside his skull.
Mike Hawthorn was diagnosed with grade two meningioma when he was just 26 after a routine eye test. After undergoing surgery in April 2021, his skull failed to fuse together fully with the tumour coming out of this crack in the bone.
This led to it growing on the outside of his skull, and actually relieved the pressure on his brain and extended his life by more than 14 months. This gave enough time for his wife to become pregnant and have a baby in March 2022 but tragically Mike died in the July aged just 33.
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Mike left behind 32-year-old widow Emily and five-month-old son Edison. His friends, Ben Angliss, Alex and Matt Roberts and their friend Jordan Ganley, have now come together to run the London Marathon on Sunday in aid of the Brain Tumour Research charity.
Emily, of Ashford in Surrey, said: "Following the surgeries, Mike’s skull didn’t fuse back together properly. Part of the tumour seeped out through a crack in the bone and started growing on the outside of his skull. In one way it was great because so much of the tumour was on the outside, and not pushing on his brain, it gave him about 14 more months of life.
"I’m so proud Mike’s friends are taking on the London Marathon, it’s amazing. They did so much for Mike when he was alive, I’m so glad they want to make a difference to other brain tumour patients dealing with this horrible disease. When I tell people about what happened to Mike, and how common brain tumours are, they are always so shocked.''
Mike had been treated using an experimental drug called Avastin at the Royal Marsden Hospital at the start
There were some big winners at the 2023 ACM Awards tonight!
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