Girl, 7, battling terminal brain cancer defies medics - but only after her family made a heartbreaking decision

A young girl with terminal brain cancer has also defied the medical odds – but only after her brave family moved to Mexico for pioneering treatment .

Kaleigh Lau, seven, was given nine months to live in April 2016 when doctors diagnosed her with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Giloma (DIPG) - a rare inoperable brain tumour that almost mainly affects children.

Her family, from Essex, were left devastated when medics told them her tumour had spread and there was nothing more they could do.

Desperate to save her - her parents Scott and Yang scoured the Internet for alternatives - and eventually decided to risk it all on one £350,000 pioneering treatment centre in Monterrey, Mexico.

Kaleigh responded well to the procedure and has now become one of the longest-surviving UK cases ever known.

Dad Mr Lau, 41, said: “When we first went I was very skeptical. But as a father I had to take that risk and keep that hope.

“If it was a scam it was a scam, but we had to do something.

‘But the doctors there are fantastic - the NHS would have given up on her ages ago, but they won’t turn away, they’re not afraid to keep trying.”