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Before last summer, Aisha Uduman seemed perfectly healthy, living in Vancouver with her boyfriend and working as a federal fisheries biologist.
But in July 2022, she started experiencing short-term memory loss, double vision, headaches, nausea, and intense pressure on her skull.
By the fall, she was diagnosed with brain cancer: diffuse midline glioma, or DMG, with a rare H3 K27M mutation.
Even after surgery removed a portion of the tumour, she was told she’d likely only have eight to 11 months to live. She wasn’t expected to make her 31st birthday.
“I would wake up every morning, ask [my boyfriend] if I had a tumour in my head, and start crying. So
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