Anguish as teen girl and step-mum diagnosed with brain tumours just months apart

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A family has been left devastated after a teen was told she has a brain tumour - just months after her step-mum was diagnosed with the exact same condition.

Tina Cranshaw, 51, was initially told she had suffered a stroke after her face drooped and her speech became slurred. However, tests discovered a terminal brain tumour the size of a golf ball, with the Doncaster mum given just 12 months to live, Yorkshire Live reports.

In a tragic twist of fate, her step-daughter Daisy, 16, from Middlesbrough, was also diagnosed with a brain tumour just one year later.

Tina's colleagues first realised something was amiss when she attended an online meeting for the charity she works for.Tina's colleagues first noticed something was wrong while she was attending an online video meeting for the charity she works for.Daisy explained: "During the meeting, my step mum had the worst headache, and she could smell gas.“She started slurring her words and her face drooped, so her colleagues called an ambulance."Tina was then rushed to Doncaster Royal Infirmary.Doctors initially thought she had suffered a stroke, but a CT scan revealed a shadow on her brain.So, Tina, also mum to Theo, nine, Imogen, 28, and Abbie, 31, was sent to Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, for a further MRI scan.Doctors were then able to confirm her devastating diagnosis.Daisy said: “It was horrible.