Flo Turner’s story: hope that science can find DIPG treatments | Newcastle Herald [Video]

New Lambton’s Cameron and Michelle Turner are devastated to have lost daughter Flo, but hope science finds answers to the disease that took her life.

Children with the disease, which has no cure, usually survive only nine to 11 months after diagnosis.

“She was in a coma for about a month. She passed last Friday – the 12^th,” dad Cameron Turner said.

“It’s heartbreaking. She was taken too soon and didn’t deserve any of the punishment that comes with brain cancer.”

When she died in her parents’ arms, there was “literally rainbows shining through the louvred windows”.

Cameron said it was “unfair for Flo, but we don’t entertain the idea of why us”.

“If you look at it scientifically, there’s no point in saying why us. It was part of Flo’s body. It’s just one rogue cell that mutates undetected and multiples in a critical area.

“The solution will come through science, research and funding. …