Brain cancer the leading cause of cancer death for under-39s

Topics: brain cancer, cancer council queensland, tumour

JORDAN Carroll faces a lifetime of medication, serious side effects, and the certain knowledge that he will eventually be blind - and he's still only 16 years old.

The Brisbane teenager has been battling a brain tumour since he was 11 - cheating death on more than one occasion.

The tumour has taken his eyesight, his memory and his childhood. And there's very little doctors can do for him.

Jordan's mum, Marie, has watched him endure a long and painful process of trial and error as his doctors tried chemotherapy, brain surgery, and even a trial drug in a bid to shrink his tumour.

There are few effective treatments for brain tumours like Jordan's, which is why Marie is calling on Queenslanders to donate to Cancer Council Queensland's Tax Appeal - and give research into brain tumours a substantial boost.

Marie said the nightmare began when Jordan complained of a terrible headache one night.

"Within minutes, he was yelling with pain and had started to throw up, so we decided to take him to hospital," she said.

"On the way, he stopped and was very quiet - we were close to going home so he could sleep it off - but we kept going to make sure he was okay.

"If we had driven home, Jordan would have been dead in the morning."

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Brain cancer the leading cause of cancer death for under-39s