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British swimmer Archie Goodburn has revealed he has been diagnosed with inoperable brain tumours.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 23-year-old, from Edinburgh, started suffering from numbness and seizures in the build-up to the Olympics trials \u2013 where he missed out on qualification by a narrow margin.<\/p>\n
But tests carried out after the trials found three large oligodendrogliomas \u2013 a rare type of cancer which can affect the brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n
The nature of the tumours makes surgery to remove the tumours impossible, with Goodburn now facing chemotherapy and radiotherapy to try and treat them.<\/p>\n
\u201cSix weeks ago, my life experienced a profound change as I was diagnosed with three brain tumours,\u201d he wrote on his Instagram.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn December 2023, my training began to be interrupted by strange episodes. These episodes, initially thought to be hemiplegic migraines, would occur during hard training.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey would leave me with a loss of strength and a numb sensation on my left side, a deep feeling of fear, nausea and extreme deja vu. I now know that these were in fact seizures.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the trials behind me, I dug deeper into what was really causing these attacks. An MRI in May finally revealed what I\u2019d begun to fear the most.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n