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'I lost half of my family to the same thing'
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A Manchester university student has told how he lost half of his immediate family - his dad and two of his brothers - to brain cancer in just seven years. Seb Hughes, 20, spoke of his 'tremendous struggle' after the deaths of his dad, Ian, and brothers, Milo and Oscar - and called for more funding for research into deadly tumours.
Milo, who was five, died in May, 2021. His tragic passing came a year after the death of their dad, also from brain cancer. Mr Hughes, a marketing director, was 49 and Milo was diagnosed with multiple tumours just a few days after he was laid to rest at a funeral.
Milo was born after their brother, nine year-old Oscar, passed away from a brain tumour in May, 2014. The three family tragedies during the brothers' childhoods left Seb, his other brother Lucas and their mum, Marie, devastated.
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But now Seb's channelling his and his family's heartbreak into action - raising money for a charity set up in his brother Oscar's name to help find breakthroughs in the treatment of the cancer that robbed him of his dad and brothers far too soon - and help other families going through the same turmoil.
OSCAR's Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity supports and cares for children facing brain tumours and their families.
It also aims to raise awareness of childhood brain tumours and to fund new research to drive down diagnosis time, increase survival rate and improve quality of life during and after treatment. The charity, however, said only a tiny fraction of the national spend on cancer research is allocated to the disease.
Seb is studying social anthropology at the University of Manchester and lives in the
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