Lauren will need scans every three months to monitor her tumour and is in the process of going through fertility treatment before starting her treatment of vorasidenib, which she is getting through a private provider.
“Medicine is excelling at a rate it has never done before, AI is taking over as we know, so I’m really hopeful on that front.”
But she admitted to having “these moments with your family where you break down and you can’t breathe”.
“The whole thing has been hard for me… but for family, it’s almost been harder for them.
“I think everyone always says ‘I wish it was me, not you’ but I could really see it with them, constantly the pain in their eyes, because they wanted it to be them not me.
“It was really, really, hard, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, having to deal with that.”
Brain tumours are the leading cause of cancer death in people under 40 in Wales, according to Brain Tumour Research.
The charity said the disease had received just 1% of UK cancer research spending since 2002.
