All-clear for girl who lost her kidneys to cancer
A TODDLER who had 70 per cent of her kidneys removed in her battle with cancer has been given the all-clear.
Rumeysa Kose had 27 gruelling courses of chemotherapy after a cluster of malignant tumours was found in her kidneys in April.
Her father Osman, 33, had noticed lumps on the 16-month-old’s abdomen and took her to the doctors, who immediately admitted her to hospital to begin treatment.
However, tests soon showed that the chemotherapy wasn’t getting rid of the cancer and doctors told Mr Kose that the affected organ ‘looked more like a tumour with a kidney on it than a kidney with a tumour’.
In June, surgeons removed Rumeysa’s entire right kidney and a third of her left during a five-hour operation at Birmingham’s Children Hospital.
After the operation the youngster was moved to University Hospital of North Staffordshire.
And yesterday Rumeysa was finally allowed back home to Clayton, Staffordshire, where she can play with her four-year-old brother Huseyin.
Her mother Esra, 31, said: ‘Because she was so young when she was diagnosed, as her mother, you often wish it was yourself who was ill. We’ve been told by the doctor that the cancer can come back, but hopefully it won’t.’
Mr Kose, a computing student, added: ‘If we hadn’t found the lump on her tummy when she was having a bath, I dread to think what would have happened.’