Treatment has reduced Megan’s tumour by 75%

A BRAVE little Cork girl with a rare and life-threatening disease has begun specialist treatment in America buoyed by the news that her tumour has reduced by 75%.

Megan Malone, a three-and-a-half-year-old girl from Cill na Martra near Macroom began a four-day course of chemotherapy yesterday.

It has emerged the toddler’s main tumour has reduced by as much as 75%, giving hope to her parents and medics at New York’s Presbyterian Hospital.