However, at 35 weeks pregnant, she suddenly became unwell while on holiday in France. <\/p>\n
The couple cut their trip short and travelled back to the UK and she was admitted to hospital.<\/p>\n
Doctors discovered a 1.4in (3.5cm) tumour on the back of her brain and a trace on her left lung.<\/p>\n
After the caesarean, and the seven-hour operation to remove the tumours, she began a course of radiotherapy. <\/p>\n
She said: “I was very ill afterwards and slept for most of the day for weeks.”<\/p>\n
Daniel was able to take time away from work to look after Annie and their son.<\/p>\n
During treatment, Annie took part in the PARTNER trial, supported by Cancer Research UK, which uses targeted therapy alongside chemotherapy. <\/p>\n
She also received pioneering immunotherapy through the LION trial, led by researchers at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust.<\/p>\n
After treatment, she went into remission again and returned to work. But at the end of last year, the cancer returned, this time in her liver and her brain. <\/p>\n
She was also diagnosed with leptomeningeal disease, a serious complication in which cancer cells spread to the tissues and fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n
Once again, she underwent surgery to remove half of her liver followed by chemotherapy and was forced to take medical retirement from her career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, at 35 weeks pregnant, she suddenly became unwell while on holiday in France. The couple cut their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-760706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}