Health
Grieving dad using daughter’s tumour to help find cure – News Mail
The medical researcher has found a modified cannabis oil has the potential to kill both leukaemia and the brain cancer which took his little girl’s life.
Doctor Matt Dun’s daughter Josie died seven months ago but he keeps a piece of her alive in his laboratory – cells from her brain tumour so he can discover a cure.
The adorable four-year-old had diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, the most deadly of all brain cancers.
The cancer scientist from Newcastle University and the Hunter Medical Research Institute grows Josie’s “jump 4 cells” with one mission in mind – revenge, even though they are the only thing physically left of his beloved daughter.
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