Mother has baby despite brain tumour risk

When Clare Hines found out she was pregnant she was faced with an agonising choice – cancel an operation to remove the tumour growing on her brain or terminate her unborn baby.

Ms Hines, then 27, from Darra in Brisbane, had suffered epileptic seizures for 10 years but had recently noticed that her balance was gone and she was struggling to hear out of her right ear.

After a number of tests doctors discovered she had a benign tumour that had wrapped itself around her acoustic, facial and balance nerve – and told her she had have it surgically removed or she risked the tumour turning malignant.

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