Eve Gascoigne, 6, is battling Myoepithelial carcinoma, an extremely rare form of cancer
A six-year-old girl was diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer after her parents noticed a squint in her eye and took her to the opticians for a check-up. Eve Gascoigne’s parents thought their daughter only needed a pair of glasses to correct her squint, which they believed was caused by excessive use of her iPad.
However the youngster, from Bridlington in East Yorkshire, was referred to the hospital by opticians, much to the concern of her mother Phillipa Batten and father Lee Gascoigne.
Phillipa, 35, said both were in disbelief when they were told that Eve had contracted an extremely rare form of cancer called Myoepithelial carcinoma.
She said: ‘We discovered there was swelling to her optic nerves which was caused by a brain tumour.
