'We’re nearly five years on': 11-year-old makes remarkable recovery from brain cancer

Sophia Conway has been treated for brain cancer three times since being diagnosed as a three-year-old. Despite the gruelling treatment, she has made a remarkable recovery

Michelle Kelly and partner Martin Conway from Nurney, Co. Kildare with their daughter, Sophia, 11, who experienced childhood cancer. Picture: Moya Nolan

Sophia spent one week in the hospital, one week at home. That was quite tough. She was five and starting to realise what was going on

In 2017, a little over two weeks before Christmas, Sophia Conway from Kildare was diagnosed with a brain tumour at age three. But her story began weeks before that, when her parents first noticed something wasn’t right.