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Woman, 22, stuck in body of eight-year-old after cancer treatment stops her growing

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cancer treatment at a young age had a lasting impact.Shauna Rae was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer when she was just six months old but, thankfully, was able to beat it after undergoing treatment.But the treatment itself had a rather extreme side-effect – it stopped her growing at the speed a normal youngster her age would do.The chemotherapy left her pituitary gland – which regulates growth in a person’s body – “almost dormant”.It meant that Shauna remained looking far younger than she actually was and has never grown more than four feet.New TLC documentary I Am Shauna Rae centres on her life, in which she explained: "I'm a woman, a 22-year-old woman stuck in the body of an 8-year-old.“My pituitary gland was rendered almost.

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