'I wish I could take my teenage daughter's deadly tumour and put it in my body'

22 Apr

Richard van Rensburg

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Jana-Mari Filmalter remains positive throughout her chemotherapy. (PHOTO: Supplied)

Getting a cancer diagnosis is a shock for anyone.

Knowing that you have a tumour so large – and in a difficult-to-treat location which makes surgery too dangerous – is heartbreaking.

Despite these setbacks – and prolonged radiation treatment that didn't work as doctors had hoped – the Filmalter family from Harrismith have something to pin their hopes on again: intensive chemotherapy for Jana-Mari (15).

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