A Wishaw woman who had her family ripped apart by the same brain tumour is trying to find a cure.
Claire Cordiner’s lost three loved ones to glioblastoma, at odds of one in a billion.
It comes as her nephew Max Jones died last month at just 18-years-old.
His tragic death follows Claire also losing her mum and her sister a year apart.
Now the 55-year-old will lead a Walk of Hope for the charity Brain Tumour Research and raise money to help fight the cruel disease.
The Walk of Hope at Chatelherault Country Park in Hamilton on Saturday, September 30 will raise vital funds to help find a cure for the disease, and she is calling on others to join her.
Claire said: “Brain tumours have absolutely devastated our family.
“They are so unpredictable and can affect anyone at any age.
“I felt totally helpless not being able to do anything for Mum and Angie, and I felt just as helpless for my nephew Max.”
Claire’s youngest sister, Angie Jones, from East Kilbride, passed away at age 36 in December 2009, after noticing “jerking motions” and weakness in her legs.
Shockingly, while Angie received treatment, her and Claire’s mum Margaret also discovered she had the same type of tumour.
The 67-year-old, from Wishaw, sadly died in October 2008.
Tragically Angie’s only child, Max, was also then diagnosed with a GBM in June 2022 before passing away last month at Kilbryde Hospice.
Claire said: “I was really upset but Angie remained upbeat.
"She initially refused treatment because she wanted to try for a second child, but when she was unable to become pregnant, she began chemotherapy and radiotherapy at The Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre in Glasgow.”
Dr Karen Noble, director of research, policy, and innovation at Brain Tumour Research, said: “Claire’s story is devastating and defies belief.
"To have three generations of one family diagnosed with the same deadly brain tumour is extremely rare, less than a one in a billion chance.
"We occasionally hear of instances where siblings are diagnosed, but this is the first case of its kind we at the charity Brain Tumour Research have been made aware of.
"Currently there is little evidence these tumours are hereditary, but evidently more research is desperately needed.”
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