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Article: Girl's life is saved by routine eye test; Alert optician spots clue to brain tumour after Faye, 15, complains of headaches.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 23, 2002
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Byline: MAIL ON SUNDAY REPORTER
SCHOOLGIRL Faye Exley owes her life to a routine eye test.
Faye, 15, decided to have her sight examined as a last resort after suffering from severe headaches for six months.
But a sharp-eyed optician spotted a minute abnormality on her retina and immediately referred her to hospital.
The specialists there found Faye had a cystic brain tumour the size of a golf ball which, without early treatment, would have proved fatal.
After three hours of delicate surgery, the tumour was removed and Faye was given the all-clear last week. She said: 'I owe my life to an eye check. I know they say the eyes are ...