Overview

• George Wade, 42, first mistook a severe headache, nausea and memory lapses after Cheltenham races for a hangover before an April 18 MRI revealed two brain tumours described as tennis-ball and squash-ball sized.
• Surgeons at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery performed an eight-hour debulking in early June, removing about 95% of the larger tumour while leaving the smaller lesion unresected.
• Pathology initially showed two grade 2 astrocytomas, with later molecular testing upstaging the larger tumour to stage four due to a mutation, which clinicians describe as currently behaving more slowly.
• He completed six months of oral chemotherapy through December that he says shrank the tumours, underwent additional skull and plastic surgeries for a skin infection, reports steroid-induced psychosis, and now has MRI scans every three months.
• After raising almost £50,000 with a 3:16 London Marathon, Wade is fronting The Gavel Trail and Auction with the Bidpath Foundation and Wild In Art, with gavels on display through September and October, online pre-bidding open and a sale set at RICS Westminster.