A girl who was told she only had a "50/50" survival chance when she was diagnosed with brain tumour has miraculously made it to adulthood.
Poppy Guilder, from Tamworth, Staffordshire, was diagnosed when she was just 14 months old in March 2004. She went in for an eight-hour brain surgery just 12 days later, when her heartbroken parents were told "there was only a 50/50 chance we would get her back".
But doctors also told them that if Poppy managed to pull through to adulthood there could be a chance she would stabilise, Birmingham Live reports.
Five brain surgeries, two years of chemotherapy and six weeks of radiotherapy on, Poppy's family said they are thrilled to have witnessed her turn 18 on January 9. Do you have an inspiring story
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