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8 year old Freya Bevan from Neath has been diagnosed with another brain tumour and she is undergoing treatment once again in America.

Author: Emma GrantPublished 15th Mar 2021
Last updated 15th Mar 2021

Six years ago we met Freya. At 22 months of old she was diagnosed with a P.N.E.T. brain tumour. Her parents contacted us to help raise awareness when they started fundraising to help cover the cost of the treatment she needed at a special facility in Oklahoma.

Last week friends of the Bevan's reached out to our radio stations. They are trying to raise as much money as possible to cover the cost of treatment in the U.S. Freya is currently in America undergoing proton beam therapy. Each time Freya has anaesthetic that alone costs five hundred pounds.

To give you an idea of Freya's health battle as a toddler she underwent two major brain surgeries, countless cycles of chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant and proton beam therapy in America. For the last 5 years Freya has been having MRI scans to monitor the tumour, and sadly in October last year the scan showed a new tumour had grown.

Freya had a further brain surgery on the 31st December where most of the growth was removed, however the results of the biopsy were devastating, and showed that the tumour was a high-grade glioma. Everyone agreed that Freya needed to travel back to America to have more proton beam therapy with the same doctor that treated Freya the first time. She arrived in the United States on the 22nd of February.

Her story has inspired communities across Swansea and Neath Port Talbot to come together and a variety of fundraising events are taking place. A fitness festival has been organised by Emma J Lifeshaper and Lyndon Johnson - with fitness instructors from the area doing online classes in a bid to encourage people to donate to Freya's fund.

Our reporter Emma Grant has been speaking with one of its organiser Emma Jay.

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