Coventry City fan battling inoperable brain tumour

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A 22-year-old Coventry City fan diagnosed with the most aggressive type of brain tumour has vowed to fight the disease while raising cash to fund new research.



Keith Evans was told in March he had an inoperable glioblastoma multiforme – a notoriously difficult cancer to treat.

And despite a gloomy outlook, which means just four per cent of people with the cancer live for more than five years, Keith is eager to highlight the condition so more can be done to find new treatments.

“I know people say that just four per cent of people survive this,” he said. “But I’m going to be in that four per cent.

“No-one expected this. After one episode I was examined by a group of trainee doctors who carried out all the typical tests, asking me to touch my nose with my index finger and all that.

“And by the end of the examination they were all saying I had epilepsy. When the diagnosis came back they were all shocked.

“I know the doctors were too. But this is where I am and right now I’m focused on the future.”

Keith’s problems started just a few months ago. A day after his 21st birthday he was made redundant from his job as a quantitative surveyor and he started to feel a twitch in his hands.

Doctors initially put his problems down to panic attacks but on a family holiday to Portugal he had three further episodes where he lost sensation in different parts of his body.

On his return to the UK he was again sent home from University Hospital but after another incident he ended up at Woodlands Surgery in Bedworth where his GP sent him to the nearby George Eliot Hospital for an MRI scan.

Doctors initially suspected a brain haemorrhage but the scan showed Keith had three lesions on the brain.