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Teacher Enters Miss England After Six Brain Operations to Raise Brain Tumour Awareness

She faces lifelong six-month MRI checks after losing partial hearing in her right ear.

Overview

  • Her sixth procedure in July 2025 removed the right eardrum and sealed the ear canal after tumour growth into the canal, leaving partial deafness.
  • Doctors will monitor her condition with MRI scans every six months for the rest of her life.
  • She has entered Miss England 2025 on October 3 to highlight brain tumour awareness, with encouragement from The Brain Tumour Charity.
  • Headaches and intermittent vision that began in February 2021 were initially attributed by a GP to the contraceptive pill before an optician’s OCT scan flagged a large optic nerve mass.
  • A biopsy identified a grade 1 meningioma that has repeatedly returned despite multiple surgeries, proton beam therapy, and skull reconstruction after an early infection.