Brave Scot with 'months' to live shares touching terminal brain tumour story in BBC film
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots man who has been told he has just 'months' to live is to share his touching story in a new BBC film about his terminal brain tumour.
Gordon Shaw, a 41-year-old cancer patient from Leith in Edinburgh, first noticed something was wrong in 2012 and was later diagnosed with astrocytoma - a tumour that can grow slowly but can also be very aggressive.
But just a few months ago the comic book artist was given a dire prognosis by medics that they don't expect to have much more time left now that he has an aggressive tumour with no treatment options available.
The moment has been captured in Long Live My Happy Head which documents Gordon's journey with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and his long-distance relationship with Shawn, an American man he met in June 2017.
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